Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 09:56:54 +0900
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@lge.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API
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Hi Mel,

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 11:30:55AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 02:56:14PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > This patch is ready for solving race problems caused by TLB batch.
> 
> s/is ready/is a preparatory patch/
> 
> > For that, we will increase/decrease TLB flush pending count of
> > mm_struct whenever tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu is called.
> > 
> > Before making it simple, this patch separates architecture specific
> > part and rename it to arch_tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu and generic part
> > just calls it.
> > 
> > It shouldn't change any behavior.
> > 
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> > Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> > Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
> > Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> 
> You could alias arch_generic_tlb_finish_mmu as arch_tlb_gather_mmu
> simiilar to how other arch-generic helpers are done to avoid some
> #ifdeffery but otherwise

Good idea. With Andrew's suggestion, Nadav will resend whole series
including his patchset. I asked to him to fix it when he respin.

> 
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

Thanks for the review!