Support of split page table lock by an architecture
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-There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock:
-everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_page_dtor(),
-which must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
+There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock: everything
+required is done by pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pte_page_dtor(), which
+must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
Make sure the architecture doesn't use slab allocator for page table
allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages.
With everything in place you can set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK.
-NOTE: pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must
+NOTE: pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must
be handled properly.
page->ptl
split lock with enabled DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, but costs
one more cache line for indirect access;
-The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_page_ctor() for PTE table and in
+The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_pte_page_ctor() for PTE table and in
pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() for PMD table.
Please, never access page->ptl directly -- use appropriate helper.