x86: add _PAGE_IOMAP pte flag for IO mappings

Use one of the software-defined PTE bits to indicate that a mapping is
intended for an IO address.  On native hardware this is irrelevent,
since a physical address is a physical address.  But in a virtual
environment, physical addresses are also virtualized, so there needs
to be some way to distinguish between pseudo-physical addresses and
actual hardware addresses; _PAGE_IOMAP indicates this intent.

By default, __supported_pte_mask masks out _PAGE_IOMAP, so it doesn't
even appear in the final pagetable.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-07 15:21:13 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 07bb2f6236
commit be43d72835
4 changed files with 18 additions and 8 deletions
+1 -1
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@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ void zap_low_mappings(void)
int nx_enabled;
pteval_t __supported_pte_mask __read_mostly = ~(_PAGE_NX | _PAGE_GLOBAL);
pteval_t __supported_pte_mask __read_mostly = ~(_PAGE_NX | _PAGE_GLOBAL | _PAGE_IOMAP);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__supported_pte_mask);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE