Re: Do we need to disable preemption in flush_tlb_range()?

From: Vineet Gupta
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 16:19:17 EST


+CC Peter since we have his attention ;-)

On 03/01/2018 07:13 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
Hi Vineet,

Just noticed that in comments for smp_call_function_many() it is said that
preemption must be disabled during its execution. And that function gets executed
among other ways like that:
-------------------------->8-----------------------
flush_tlb_range()
-> on_each_cpu_mask()
-> smp_call_function_many()
-------------------------->8-----------------------

In general I prefer not to - Peter what say you ?


I'm not seeing right now any real problem with current implementation but
some architectures do that thus the question.

-Alexey