Re: [v3 PATCH] mm/memory.c: skip spurious TLB flush for retried page fault

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Aug 18 2020 - 15:02:10 EST


On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:04 PM Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We could just skip the spurious TLB flush to mitigate the regression.

Ok, this patch I will apply.

I still hope that arm64 fixes (maybe already fixed) their spurious TLB
function, and I think we should rename it to make sure everybody
understands it's local, but in the meantime this patch hides the
regression and isn't wrong.

Thanks,

Linus