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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxarm@openeuler.org,
	Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/features: mark BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH doesn't apply to ARM64
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:18:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6r42pjy.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210223003230.11976-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>

Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> writes:

> BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH is used on x86 to do batched tlb shootdown by
> sending one IPI to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages rather
> than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry.
> On arm64, tlb shootdown is done by hardware. Flush instructions are
> innershareable. The local flushes are limited to the boot (1 per CPU)
> and when a task is getting a new ASID.
> So marking this feature as "TODO" is not proper. ".." isn't good as
> well. So this patch adds a "N/A" for this kind of features which are
> not needed on some architectures.
>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/features/arch-support.txt        | 1 +
>  Documentation/features/vm/TLB/arch-support.txt | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

This had a conflict with the c6x removal, but I fixed that up and
(finally) applied it, thanks.

jon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-23  0:32 [PATCH] Documentation/features: mark BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH doesn't apply to ARM64 Barry Song
2021-02-23  6:10 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-02-23  6:19   ` [Linuxarm] " Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-03-08 12:59 ` Will Deacon
2021-03-15 19:18 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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