Re: [PATCH] don't use flush_tlb_all in suspend time

From: Shaohua Li
Date: Sun May 07 2006 - 22:29:29 EST


On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 14:04 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On So 29-04-06 23:57:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 06:45 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > > flush_tlb_all uses on_each_cpu, which will disable/enable interrupt.
> > > > > In suspend/resume time, this will make interrupt wrongly enabled.
> > > >
> > > > > diff -puN arch/i386/mm/init.c~flush_tlb_all_check arch/i386/mm/init.c
> > > > > --- linux-2.6.17-rc3/arch/i386/mm/init.c~flush_tlb_all_check 2006-04-29 08:47:05.000000000 +0800
> > > > > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc3-root/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2006-04-29 08:48:15.000000000 +0800
> > > > > @@ -420,7 +420,10 @@ void zap_low_mappings (void)
> > > > > #else
> > > > > set_pgd(swapper_pg_dir+i, __pgd(0));
> > > > > #endif
> > > > > - flush_tlb_all();
> > > > > + if (cpus_weight(cpu_online_map) == 1)
> > > > > + local_flush_tlb();
> > > > > + else
> > > > > + flush_tlb_all();
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Either it is okay to enable interrupts here -> unneccessary and ugly
> > > > test, or it is not, and then we are broken in SMP case.
> > > It's not broken in SMP case, APs are offlined here in suspend/resume.
> > >
> >
> > In which case, how's about this?
>
> Certainly better, I'd say.
>
> > @@ -420,7 +421,14 @@ void zap_low_mappings (void)
> > #else
> > set_pgd(swapper_pg_dir+i, __pgd(0));
> > #endif
> > - if (cpus_weight(cpu_online_map) == 1)
> > + /*
> > + * We can be called at suspend/resume time, with local interrupts
> > + * disabled. But flush_tlb_all() requires that local interrupts be
> > + * enabled.
> > + *
> > + * Happily, the APs are not yet started, so we can use local_flush_tlb() * in that case
> > + */
> > + if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
> > local_flush_tlb();
> > else
> > flush_tlb_all();
Sorry for the delay. Last week is holiday here.

> But this still scares. It means calling convention is "may enable
> interrupts with >1 cpu, may not with == 1 cpu".
Then we need port x86_64's implementation. I'll try if I can work it
out.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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