Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/mmu_gather: send tlb_remove_table_smp_sync IPI only to CPUs in kernel mode

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 06 2023 - 09:31:04 EST


On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 09:38:50AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> > To actually hit this path you're doing something really dodgy.
>
> Apparently khugepaged is using the same infrastructure:
>
> $ grep tlb_remove_table khugepaged.c
> tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
> tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
>
> So just enabling khugepaged will hit that path.

Urgh, WTF..

Let me go read that stuff :/