From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm/hugetlb: Simplify hugetlb unmap Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:34:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20160601153442.229f0747c97d1bbf21f1a935@linux-foundation.org> References: <1464587062-17745-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43322 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750926AbcFAWen (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2016 18:34:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1464587062-17745-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 May 2016 11:14:19 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 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?