Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753453AbdH2L2W (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:28:22 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:47377 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752821AbdH2L2T (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:28:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:27:31 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Laurent Dufour , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@linux.intel.com, mhocko@kernel.org, dave@stgolabs.net, jack@suse.cz, Matthew Wilcox , mpe@ellerman.id.au, paulus@samba.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , hpa@zytor.com, Will Deacon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, Tim Chen , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure Message-ID: <20170829112731.vhgwrzwwlimdbjcn@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1503007519-26777-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1503007519-26777-15-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170827001823.n5wgkfq36z6snvf2@node.shutemov.name> <20170828093727.5wldedputadanssh@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1503954877.4850.19.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <20170829083352.qrsxvk3lkiydi3o2@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170829083352.qrsxvk3lkiydi3o2@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> 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: 1076 Lines: 24 On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:33:52AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:14:37AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > We'd have to audit archs closely. Things like the page walk cache > > flushing on power etc... > > If you point me where to look, I'll have a poke around. I'm not > quite sure what you mean with pagewalk cache flushing. Your hash thing > flushes everything inside the PTL IIRC and the radix code appears fairly > 'normal'. mpe helped me out and explained that is the PWC hint to TBLIE. So, you set need_flush_all when you unhook pud/pmd/pte which you then use to set PWC. So free_pgtables() will do the PWC when it unhooks higher level pages. But you're right that there's some issues, free_pgtables() itself doesn't seem to use mm->page_table_lock,pmd->lock _AT_ALL_ to unhook the pages. If it were to do that, things should work fine since those locks would then serialize against the speculative faults, we would never install a page if the VMA would be under tear-down and it would thus not be visible to your caches either.