From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Mohamed Alzayat <alzayat@mpi-sws.org>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] tlb: Fix (soft-)dirty bit management & clean up API
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:14:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wibdV-nJxf77npZU8DadAMups90jAjPPAnV4Jnsemn7iQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127235347.1402-1-will@kernel.org>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 3:54 PM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The objective is to fix the lacklustre TLB invalidation on the clear_refs
> path and then augment the mmu_gather API to make it more difficult to
> abuse.
The series continues to look good to me.
I don't love our "tlb_flush_pending" hackery, but it is what it is,
and at least this series cleans up the proper flushing interfaces.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-28 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-27 23:53 [PATCH v3 0/6] tlb: Fix (soft-)dirty bit management & clean up API Will Deacon
2021-01-27 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] mm: proc: Invalidate TLB after clearing soft-dirty page state Will Deacon
2021-01-27 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Remove unused start/end arguments from tlb_finish_mmu() Will Deacon
2021-01-27 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Introduce tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm() Will Deacon
2021-01-27 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Remove start/end arguments from tlb_gather_mmu() Will Deacon
2021-01-27 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] tlb: arch: Remove empty __tlb_remove_tlb_entry() stubs Will Deacon
2021-01-27 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] x86/ldt: Use tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm() when freeing LDT page-tables Will Deacon
2021-01-28 17:14 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-01-29 11:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] tlb: Fix (soft-)dirty bit management & clean up API Peter Zijlstra
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