Re: [PATCH 05/17] asm-generic/tlb: Rename HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Dec 16 2019 - 07:39:05 EST


On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 06:01:58PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Towards a more consistent naming scheme.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/Kconfig | 3 ++-
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 2 +-
> > mm/mmu_gather.c | 2 +-
> > 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/arch/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> > @@ -396,8 +396,9 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
> > config MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
> > bool
> >
> > -config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
> > +config MMU_GATHER_NO_TABLE_INVALIDATE
> > bool
> > + depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
>
>
> Can we drop this Kernel config option instead use
> MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE? IMHO reducing the kernel config related to
> mmu_gather can reduce the complexity.

I'm confused, are you saing you're happy to have PowerPC eat the extra
TLB invalidates? I thought you cared about PPC performance :-)