Re: [PATCH 20/19] ARM: LPAE: Invalidate the TLB before freeing thePMD

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:23:19AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> +static inline void __pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmdp,
> +				  unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
> +	tlb_add_flush(tlb, addr);
> +	tlb_flush(tlb);
> +	pmd_free((tlb)->mm, pmdp);
> +#endif
> +}

You're:

1. tlb_add_flush() - Adding the address which covers the PMD to the range
   of virtual addresses which need flushing - ok.
2. tlb_flush() - You're then forcing a flush.
3. pmd_free() - You're now freeing the page.

One of the points about the shootdown interface is that it batches things
up.  So what's wrong with:

static inline void __pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmdp,
	unsigned long addr)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
	tlb_add_flush(tlb, addr);
	tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmdp));
#endif
}

and leave the tlb invalidate and actual page freeing to the batching code
to deal with?
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