Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752013AbdGERC2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:02:28 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:37389 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696AbdGERC0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:02:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 19:02:19 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: X86 ML , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Nadav Amit , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID Message-ID: <20170705170219.ogjnswef3ufgeklz@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20170705121807.GF4941@worktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 32 On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:04:39AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 08:53:22AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> @@ -104,18 +140,20 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, > >> > >> /* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. */ > >> cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next)); > > > > Barriers should have a comment... what is being ordered here against > > what? > > How's this comment? > > /* > * Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. We need to do > * it in this order: any inc_mm_tlb_gen() caller that writes a > * larger tlb_gen than we read here must see our cpu set in > * mm_cpumask() so that it will know to flush us. The barrier > * here synchronizes with inc_mm_tlb_gen(). > */ Slightly confusing, you mean this, right? cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask()); inc_mm_tlb_gen(); MB MB next_tlb_gen = atomic64_read(&next->context.tlb_gen); flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask()); which seems to make sense.