x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups
If we have a write protection #PF and fix up the pmd then the hugetlb code [the only user of pmdp_set_access_flags], in its do_huge_pmd_wp_page() page fault resolution function calls pmdp_set_access_flags() to mark the pmd permissive again, and flushes the TLB. This TLB flush is unnecessary: a flush on #PF is guaranteed on most (all?) x86 CPUs, and even in the worst-case we'll generate a spurious fault. So remove it. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121120120251.GA15742@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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