Re: [PATCH] don't use flush_tlb_all in suspend time

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 18 2006 - 04:47:12 EST


On Ät 18-05-06 16:38:21, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:31 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > > In which case, how's about this?
> > > >
> > > > Certainly better, I'd say.
> > > >
> > > > > @@ -420,7 +421,14 @@ void zap_low_mappings (void)
> > > > > #else
> > > > > set_pgd(swapper_pg_dir+i, __pgd(0));
> > > > > #endif
> > > > > - if (cpus_weight(cpu_online_map) == 1)
> > > > > + /*
> > > > > + * We can be called at suspend/resume time, with local interrupts
> > > > > + * disabled. But flush_tlb_all() requires that local interrupts be
> > > > > + * enabled.
> > > > > + *
> > > > > + * Happily, the APs are not yet started, so we can use local_flush_tlb() * in that case
> > > > > + */
> > > > > + if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
> > > > > local_flush_tlb();
> > > > > else
> > > > > flush_tlb_all();
> > > >
> > > > But this still scares. It means calling convention is "may enable
> > > > interrupts with >1 cpu, may not with == 1 cpu".
> > > Below patch should make things clean. How do you think?
> >
> > Nice...
> >
> > Could we perhaps reuse swsusp_pg_dir (just make it used for swsusp &
> > suspend-to-ram) to save a bit more code? It is in arch/i386/mm/init.c
> Sure. But it's under CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND.

Yes, #ifdef definitely does need to change there.

> That part needs cleanup I
> think and it's a little strange to me (why should we simply copy
> swapper_pg_dir to swsusp_pg_dir, instead do it in zap_low_mappings?).

?? Sorry, I do not understand. "instead of doing"?
Pavel
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