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From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH V3 3/6] arm: mm: implement get_user_pages_fast
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:32:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140312163200.GJ27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394631623-17883-4-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 01:40:20PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> +void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> +			  pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> +	pmd_t pmd = pmd_mksplitting(*pmdp);
> +	VM_BUG_ON(address & ~PMD_MASK);
> +	set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd);
> +
> +	/* dummy IPI to serialise against fast_gup */
> +	smp_call_function(thp_splitting_flush_sync, NULL, 1);
> +}

do you really need to IPI the entire machine? Wouldn't the mm's TLB
invalidate mask be sufficient?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-12 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-12 13:40 [RFC PATCH V3 0/6] get_user_pages_fast for ARM and ARM64 Steve Capper
2014-03-12 13:40 ` [RFC PATCH V3 1/6] arm: mm: Introduce special ptes for LPAE Steve Capper
2014-03-12 13:40 ` [RFC PATCH V3 2/6] arm: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Steve Capper
2014-03-12 13:40 ` [RFC PATCH V3 3/6] arm: mm: implement get_user_pages_fast Steve Capper
2014-03-12 14:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-12 16:20     ` Steve Capper
2014-03-12 16:30       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-12 16:42         ` Steve Capper
2014-03-12 16:32   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-03-12 16:41     ` Steve Capper
2014-03-12 16:55     ` Will Deacon
2014-03-12 17:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-14 11:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-13  8:24       ` Steve Capper
2014-03-12 17:15   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-03-13  8:03     ` Steve Capper
2014-03-12 13:40 ` [RFC PATCH V3 4/6] arm64: Convert asm/tlb.h to generic mmu_gather Steve Capper
2014-03-12 13:40 ` [RFC PATCH V3 5/6] arm64: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Steve Capper
2014-03-12 13:40 ` [RFC PATCH V3 6/6] arm64: mm: Activate get_user_pages_fast for arm64 Steve Capper

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