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Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:27:47 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH] mm/memory.c: skip spurious TLB flush for retried page
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:01:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:04 PM Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We could just skip the spurious TLB flush to mitigate the regression.
> 
> Ok, this patch I will apply.

Cheers.

> I still hope that arm64 fixes (maybe already fixed) their spurious TLB
> function, and I think we should rename it to make sure everybody
> understands it's local, but in the meantime this patch hides the
> regression and isn't wrong.

I'll look at it for 5.10.

Will