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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [RFC & PATCH]  fixing tlb flush race problem on smp
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:06:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030129090627.D7741@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030127170346.S11633@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:03:46PM -0800

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:03:46PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:

> I also find a stupid typo and a subtle hole in my original patch.
> Here is an updated version, for 2.4/mips only.  If it looks ok, I 
> will extend to other sub-arches/trees.
> 
> This new one is pretty nice in that all mmu related operations
> are put into one file and it is much easier to ensure correctness
> later.

I like this one.

> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Mark current->active_mm as not "active" anymore.
> +	 * We don't want to mislead possible IPI tlb flush routines.
> +	 */
> +	clear_bit(cpu, &prev->cpu_vm_mask);
> +	set_bit(cpu, &next->cpu_vm_mask);
> +
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);

I don't think it's necessary to protect the clear_bit and set_bit operations
with local_irq_save ... local_irq_restore.

In addition because switch_mm is always called with interrupts enabled you
can simplify that to local_irq_disable ... local_irq_enable.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-29  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-21 22:37 [RFC & PATCH] fixing tlb flush race problem on smp Jun Sun
2003-01-22  7:43 ` Juan Quintela
2003-01-28  1:03   ` Jun Sun
2003-01-29  8:06     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2003-02-05  0:02       ` Jun Sun
2003-02-05  0:02         ` Jun Sun
2003-02-14  4:48         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2003-02-14 11:06           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-01-29  7:28   ` Ralf Baechle

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