From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] remove frv usage of flush_tlb_pgtables()
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:37:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185539874.5495.225.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21776.1185529438@redhat.com>
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:43 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > frv is the last user in the tree of that dubious hook, and it's my
> > understanding that it's not even needed. It's only called by
> memory.c
> > free_pgd_range() which is always called within an mmu_gather, and
> > tlb_flush() on frv will do a flush_tlb_mm(), which from my reading
> > of the code, seems to do what flush_tlb_ptables() does, which is
> > to clear the cached PGE.
>
> Yeah... I hadn't got around to killing myself yet.
Ahem... hopefully you won't get around to it any time soon :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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2007-07-26 23:50 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-27 9:43 ` David Howells
2007-07-27 12:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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