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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for
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From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 22:11 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:54 PM Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > So we do need a different flush instruction for the page tables vs. the
> > normal TLB pages.
> 
> Right. ARM wants it too. x86 is odd in that a regular "invlpg" already
> invalidates all the internal tlb cache nodes.
> 
> So the "new world order" is exactly that patch that PeterZ sent you, that adds a
> 
> +       unsigned int            freed_tables : 1;
> 

 .../...

> So instead, when you get to the actual "tlb_flush(tlb)", you do
> exactly that - flush the tlb. And the mmu_gather structure shows you
> how much you need to flush. If you see that "freed_tables" is set,
> then you know that you need to also do the special instruction to
> flush the inner level caches. The range continues to show the page
> range.

Yup. That looks like a generic version of the "need_flush_all" flag we
have, which is fine by us.

Just don't blame powerpc for all the historical crap :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

> 
>            Linus