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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Do not flush tlb when setting pmd entry
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:14:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200615101443.GA10075@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1591177333-17833-1-git-send-email-maobibo@loongson.cn>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:42:13PM +0800, Bibo Mao wrote:
> Function set_pmd_at is to set pmd entry, if tlb entry need to
> be flushed, there exists pmdp_huge_clear_flush alike function
> before set_pmd_at is called. So it is not necessary to call
> flush_tlb_all in this function.

have you checked all set_pmd_at() calls ? I found a few case where
it's not clear to me, if tlb flushing is done... If you think this
is still the right thing to do, please change arch/mips/mm/pgtable-32.c
as well.

Thomas.

-- 
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-15 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03  9:42 [PATCH] MIPS: Do not flush tlb when setting pmd entry Bibo Mao
2020-06-15 10:14 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2020-06-16 10:34   ` maobibo
2020-06-17 11:14     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-06-20  3:47       ` maobibo
2020-06-22 15:48         ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-06-23  6:27           ` maobibo

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