> On Apr 12, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 03:11:22PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote: >>> On Apr 12, 2019, at 4:17 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >>> To clarify, 'that' is Nadav's patch: >>> >>> 515ab7c41306 ("x86/mm: Align TLB invalidation info") >>> >>> which turns out to be the real problem. >> >> Sorry for that. I still think it should be aligned, especially with all the >> effort the Intel puts around to avoid bus-locking on unaligned atomic >> operations. > > No atomics anywhere in sight, so that's not a concern. You are right. I still think that at least TLB-wise it should be better to have the argument off-stack. I’ll try to run some experiments, based on your feedback, and send a patch on top of your revert. Sorry for the mess, again.