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![]() The .change_pte() MMU notifier callback was intended as an
optimization. The original point of it was that KSM could tell KVM to flip
its secondary PTE to a new location without having to first zap it. At
the time there was also an .invalidate_page() callback; both of them were
*not* bracketed by calls to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end}(),
and .invalidate_page() also doubled as a fallback implementation of
.change_pte().
Later on, however, both callbacks were changed to occur within an
invalidate_range_start/end() block.
In the case of .change_pte(), commit
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emulate.c | ||
entry.c | ||
fpu.S | ||
hypcall.c | ||
interrupt.c | ||
interrupt.h | ||
Kconfig | ||
loongson_ipi.c | ||
Makefile | ||
mips.c | ||
mmu.c | ||
msa.S | ||
stats.c | ||
tlb.c | ||
trace.h | ||
vz.c |