Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] x86/mm/tlb: Refactor common code into flush_tlb_on_cpus()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon May 27 2019 - 05:29:06 EST


On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 01:22:01AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:

> There is one functional change, which should not affect correctness:
> flush_tlb_mm_range compared loaded_mm and the mm to figure out if local
> flush is needed. Instead, the common code would look at the mm_cpumask()
> which should give the same result.

> @@ -786,18 +804,9 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
> info = get_flush_tlb_info(mm, start, end, stride_shift, freed_tables,
> new_tlb_gen);
>
> - if (mm == this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm)) {
> - lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled();
> - local_irq_disable();
> - flush_tlb_func_local(info, TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);
> - local_irq_enable();
> - }
> -
> - if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), cpu) < nr_cpu_ids)
> - flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), info);

So if we want to double check that; we'd add:

WARN_ON_ONCE(cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(mm)) ==
(mm == this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm)));

right?

> + flush_tlb_on_cpus(mm_cpumask(mm), info);
>
> put_flush_tlb_info();
> - put_cpu();
> }