Re: [PATCH] [1/1] CPA: Flush the caches when setting pages not present v2

[Andi Kleen]

> This is suboptimal though, as it will trigger a wbinvd() everytime
> when we hit a non present pte in a range, whether we did set the entry
> in question to not present or not.

Do you think that's common? I considered this while writing the code,
but figured it was just a oddball case not worth caring about.

DEBUG_PAGEALLOC does not call this normally anyways and people
should not call this for unallocated mappings anyways. 

> The gart code unmapping is a special case. This only happens during
> boot, so adding a wbinvd() to the gart code is solving this issue
> without imposing it on other use cases.
> 
> Another solution for this would be to change the mapping to uncached
> before unmapping, so we could avoid the wbinvd() completely.

That will work for pci-gart, but not for some future users of set_memory_np()
I plan to submit (they run potentially with multiple CPUs online and doing callbacks
there would be quite ugly). So I would prefer  if you kept some variant of my original patch.

-Andi

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