From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm/hugetlb: Simplify hugetlb unmap
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:51:41 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twhcvw4q.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601153442.229f0747c97d1bbf21f1a935@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:19 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> For hugetlb like THP (and unlike regular page), we do tlb flush after
>> dropping ptl. Because of the above, we don't need to track force_flush
>> like we do now. Instead we can simply call tlb_remove_page() which
>> will do the flush if needed.
>>
>> No functionality change in this patch.
>
> This all looks fairly non-horrifying. Will a non-RFC version be
> forthcoming?
Yes. I will send an updated version of the series. Patch 4 may need to go through
powerpc tree because of other dependent patches. I will continue to include
that in the series to show the arch related changes.
-aneesh
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-30 5:44 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-05-30 5:44 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] mm: Change the interface for __tlb_remove_page Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-05-30 5:44 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] mm/mmu_gather: Track page size with mmu gather and force flush if page size change Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-05-30 5:44 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] powerpc/mm/radix: Implement tlb mmu gather flush efficiently Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-06-01 22:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm/hugetlb: Simplify hugetlb unmap Andrew Morton
2016-06-02 8:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
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2016-05-30 6:56 ` Hillf Danton
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