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Add set_pXd()/set_pte() helper functions which must be used to update page table entries. The new helpers use WRITE_ONCE() to make sure that a page table entry is written to only once. Without this the compiler could otherwise generate code which writes several times to a page table entry when updating its contents from invalid to valid, which could lead to surprising results especially for multithreaded processes... Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>