From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
npiggin@gmail.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux@armlinux.org.uk, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/11] asm-generic/tlb: Provide a comment
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:12:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180919131254.GI24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180919122328.GB22723@arm.com>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:23:29PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > + * which (when !need_flush_all; fullmm will have start = end = ~0UL) provides
> > > > + * the range that needs to be flushed to cover the pages to be freed.
> > >
> > > I don't understand the mention of need_flush_all here -- I didn't think it
> > > was used by the core code at all.
> >
> > The core does indeed not use that flag; but if the architecture set
> > that, the range is still ignored.
> >
> > Can you suggest clearer wording?
>
> The range is only ignored if the default tlb_flush() implementation is used
> though, right? Since this text is about the fields that tlb_flush() can use,
> I think we can just delete the part in brackets.
Well, any architecture that actually uses need_flush_all will obviously
require a tlb_flush implementation that looks at it.
But OK, I'll remove the note.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-19 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 9:21 [RFC][PATCH 00/11] my generic mmu_gather patches Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/11] asm-generic/tlb: Provide a comment Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 10:30 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-13 10:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 12:18 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-13 12:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-14 10:28 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-14 10:28 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-14 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-14 14:07 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-14 16:48 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-19 11:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-19 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-19 12:23 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-19 13:12 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/11] asm-generic/tlb: Provide HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-14 16:56 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/11] x86/mm: Page size aware flush_tlb_mm_range() Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 17:22 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-13 18:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 18:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 18:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 18:49 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-13 18:47 ` Dave Hansen
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/11] asm-generic/tlb: Provide generic VIPT cache flush Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-14 16:56 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/11] asm-generic/tlb: Provide generic tlb_flush Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 13:09 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-13 14:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/11] asm-generic/tlb: Conditionally provide tlb_migrate_finish() Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-14 16:57 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/11] arm/tlb: Convert to generic mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-18 14:10 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-19 11:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-19 12:24 ` Will Deacon
2018-09-19 11:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/11] ia64/tlb: Conver " Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/11] sh/tlb: Convert SH " Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/11] um/tlb: Convert " Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-13 9:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/11] arch/tlb: Clean up simple architectures Peter Zijlstra
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