Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] mmu_notifiers: Rename invalidate_range notifier

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 06:39:27PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> There are two main use cases for mmu notifiers. One is by KVM which
> uses mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()/end() to manage a software
> TLB.
> 
> The other is to manage hardware TLBs which need to use the
> invalidate_range() callback because HW can establish new TLB entries
> at any time. Hence using start/end() can lead to memory corruption as
> these callbacks happen too soon/late during page unmap.
> 
> mmu notifier users should therefore either use the start()/end()
> callbacks or the invalidate_range() callbacks. To make this usage
> clearer rename the invalidate_range() callback to
> arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() and update documention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h               |  6 +-
>  arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_hugetlbpage.c    |  2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c            | 10 ++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h                 |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                               |  2 +-
>  drivers/iommu/amd/iommu_v2.c                    | 10 ++--
>  drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3-sva.c | 13 ++---
>  drivers/iommu/intel/svm.c                       |  8 +--
>  drivers/misc/ocxl/link.c                        |  8 +--
>  include/linux/mmu_notifier.h                    | 48 +++++++++---------
>  mm/huge_memory.c                                |  4 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c                                    |  7 +--
>  mm/mmu_notifier.c                               | 20 ++++++--
>  13 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>

Jason