Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Optimize TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_[pmd|pud]_range()

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 6/26/26 03:28, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> flush_tlb_kernel_range() could flush down an entire block mapping just with
> a single PAGE_SIZE stride. This capability was being used umapping PMD and
> PUD based block mappings in unmap_hotplug_[pmd|pud]_range().
> 
> But later on the commit 48478b9f7913
> ("arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()") replaced
> this PAGE_SIZE stride with [PMD|PUD]_SIZE strides, hence forcing multiple
> PAGE_SIZE stride based TLB flushes on platforms where TLB range operation
> is not supported. Revert back to the earlier TLB behaviour along with the
> required comments that were dropped earlier.
> 

Right, it looked like the right thing to do in that commit. I wonder if we can
make the comments even clearer to prevent his happening another time,
incorporating the HW consideration.

In any case

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b0d5836032ce3135bfc473f6bff791306d086925.camel@decadent.org.uk/
> Fixes: 48478b9f7913 ("arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()")
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 8242f93f05e4..5ff0041f4a5f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -1509,7 +1509,11 @@ static void unmap_hotplug_pmd_range(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr,
>  			if (free_mapped) {
>  				/* CONT blocks are not supported in the vmemmap */
>  				WARN_ON(pmd_cont(pmd));
> -				flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PMD_SIZE);
> +				/*
> +				 * One TLBI should be sufficient here as the PMD_SIZE
> +				 * range is mapped with a single block entry.
> +				 */

"Flush only a single page, resulting in a single TLBi for this large block
mapping, avoiding multiple TLBIs on HW without TLB range flushes."

-- 
Cheers,

David