Re: [RFC 00/10] x86 TLB flush cleanups, moving toward PCID support

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun May 07 2017 - 18:54:33 EST


On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series goes a long way toward cleaning up the mess. With all the
> patches applied, there is a single function that contains the meat of
> the code to flush the TLB on a given CPU, and all the tlb flushing
> APIs call it for both local and remote CPUs.

Looks fine to me. I'm always a bit nervous about TLB changes like this
just because any potential bugs tend to be really really hard to see
and catch, but I don't see anything wrong in the series.

Linus