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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-25 16:05:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-25 16:05:40 -0700
commit1cf35d47712dd5dc4d62c6ce984f04ac6eab0408 (patch)
treef00857df7a2eec9520c1a950a0f9ae16cdfc4627 /arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
parent9a60ee117bbeaf2fb9a02ea80a6bdbc2811ca4d2 (diff)
mm: split 'tlb_flush_mmu()' into tlb flushing and memory freeing parts
The mmu-gather operation 'tlb_flush_mmu()' has done two things: the actual tlb flush operation, and the batched freeing of the pages that the TLB entries pointed at. This splits the operation into separate phases, so that the forced batched flushing done by zap_pte_range() can now do the actual TLB flush while still holding the page table lock, but delay the batched freeing of all the pages to after the lock has been dropped. This in turn allows us to avoid a race condition between set_page_dirty() (as called by zap_pte_range() when it finds a dirty shared memory pte) and page_mkclean(): because we now flush all the dirty page data from the TLB's while holding the pte lock, page_mkclean() will be held up walking the (recently cleaned) page tables until after the TLB entries have been flushed from all CPU's. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
index 0baf7f0d9394..f1a0dace3efe 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
@@ -98,15 +98,25 @@ static inline void __tlb_alloc_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
}
}
-static inline void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
+static inline void tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
{
tlb_flush(tlb);
+}
+
+static inline void tlb_flush_mmu_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
+{
free_pages_and_swap_cache(tlb->pages, tlb->nr);
tlb->nr = 0;
if (tlb->pages == tlb->local)
__tlb_alloc_page(tlb);
}
+static inline void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
+{
+ tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly(tlb);
+ tlb_flush_mmu_free(tlb);
+}
+
static inline void
tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{