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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:39:53 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 01:32:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:47:17AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 02:39:59PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > The only problem with this approach is that we've lost track of the granule
> > > size by the point we get to the tlb_flush(), so we can't adjust the stride of
> > > the TLB invalidations for huge mappings, which actually works nicely in the
> > > synchronous case (e.g. we perform a single invalidation for a 2MB mapping,
> > > rather than iterating over it at a 4k granule).
> > > 
> > > One thing we could do is switch to synchronous mode if we detect a change in
> > > granule (i.e. treat it like a batch failure).
> > 
> > We could use tlb_start_vma() to track that, I think. Shouldn't be too
> > hard.
> 
> Hurm.. look at commit:
> 
>   e77b0852b551 ("mm/mmu_gather: track page size with mmu gather and force flush if page size change")

Ah, good, it seems that already got cleaned up a lot. But it all moved
into the power code.. blergh.