Re: [PATCH] x86, tlb: small cleanup for native_flush_tlb_others

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 08:34:16 EST



* Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use smp_processor_id instead of get_cpu and put_cpu since
> the caller has already disabled preemption
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> index 6acc724..92849d0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> @@ -211,11 +211,10 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> if (is_uv_system()) {
> unsigned int cpu;
>
> - cpu = get_cpu();
> + cpu = smp_processor_id();
> cpumask = uv_flush_tlb_others(cpumask, mm, va, cpu);
> if (cpumask)
> flush_tlb_others_ipi(cpumask, mm, va);
> - put_cpu();
> return;

There's multiple callers. Could you please update the changelog with the list of
callers and a statement that all of them disable preemption already?

Thanks,

Ingo
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