Re: [PATCH v6 06/18] asm-generic/tlb: Conditionally provide tlb_migrate_finish()

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:31:54AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Needed for ia64 -- alternatively we drop the entire hook.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/tlb.h |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
> @@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ static inline void tlb_end_vma(struct mm
>  
>  #endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
>  
> +#ifndef tlb_migrate_finish
>  #define tlb_migrate_finish(mm) do {} while (0)
> +#endif

Fine for now, but I agree that we should drop the hook altogether. AFAICT,
this only exists to help an ia64 optimisation which looks suspicious to
me since it uses:

    mm == current->active_mm && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1

to identify a "single-threaded fork()" and therefore perform only local TLB
invalidation. Even if this was the right thing to do, it's not clear to me
that tlb_migrate_finish() is called on the right CPU anyway.

So I'd be keen to remove this hook before it spreads, but in the meantime:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Will