Re: [RFC PATCH v5 4/8] mm: tlb: Pass struct mmu_gather to flush_pmd_tlb_range

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 11:14:28 EST


On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:29:23PM +0800, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> index e2e2bef07dd2..32d4661e5a56 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> @@ -1160,10 +1160,10 @@ static inline int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
> * invalidate the entire TLB which is not desitable.
> * e.g. see arch/arc: flush_pmd_tlb_range
> */
> -#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
> +#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(tlb, vma, addr, end) flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
> #define flush_pud_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
> #else
> -#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) BUILD_BUG()
> +#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(tlb, vma, addr, end) BUILD_BUG()
> #define flush_pud_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) BUILD_BUG()
> #endif
> #endif
> diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> index 3d7c01e76efc..96c9cf77bfb5 100644
> --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> +++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> @@ -109,8 +109,14 @@ int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> int changed = !pmd_same(*pmdp, entry);
> VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);
> if (changed) {
> + struct mmu_gather tlb;
> + unsigned long tlb_start = address;
> + unsigned long tlb_end = address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
> set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, entry);
> - flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
> + tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, vma->vm_mm, tlb_start, tlb_end);
> + tlb.cleared_pmds = 1;
> + flush_pmd_tlb_range(&tlb, vma, tlb_start, tlb_end);
> + tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, tlb_start, tlb_end);
> }
> return changed;
> }

This is madness. Please, carefully consider what you just wrote and what
it will do in the generic case.

Instead of trying to retro-fit flush_*tlb_range() to take an mmu_gather
parameter, please replace them out-right.