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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2017-04-22 00:01:21 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-04-26 10:02:06 +0200
commitce27374fabf553153c3f53efcaa9bfab9216bd8c (patch)
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x86/mm: Make flush_tlb_mm_range() more predictable
I'm about to rewrite the function almost completely, but first I want to get a functional change out of the way. Currently, if flush_tlb_mm_range() does not flush the local TLB at all, it will never do individual page flushes on remote CPUs. This seems to be an accident, and preserving it will be awkward. Let's change it first so that any regressions in the rewrite will be easier to bisect and so that the rewrite can attempt to change no visible behavior at all. The fix is simple: we can simply avoid short-circuiting the calculation of base_pages_to_flush. As a side effect, this also eliminates a potential corner case: if tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling == TLB_FLUSH_ALL, flush_tlb_mm_range() could have ended up flushing the entire address space one page at a time. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4b29b771d9975aad7154c314534fec235618175a.1492844372.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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