From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx128.postini.com [74.125.245.128]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26F9F6B00E9 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 12:25:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1337271884.4281.46.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/6] arm, mm: Convert arm to generic tlb From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:24:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20120517160012.GB18593@arm.com> References: <20110302175928.022902359@chello.nl> <20110302180259.109909335@chello.nl> <20120517030551.GA11623@linux-sh.org> <20120517093022.GA14666@arm.com> <20120517095124.GN23420@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1337254086.4281.26.camel@twins> <20120517160012.GB18593@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Russell King , Paul Mundt , Andrea Arcangeli , Thomas Gleixner , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Miller , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , Chris Metcalf , Martin Schwidefsky On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 17:00 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > BTW, looking at your tlb-unify branch, does tlb_remove_table() call > tlb_flush/tlb_flush_mmu before freeing the tables? I can only see > tlb_remove_page() doing this. On ARM, even UP, we need the TLB flushing > after clearing the pmd and before freeing the pte page table (and > ideally doing it less often than at every pte_free_tlb() call). No I don't think it does, so far the only archs using the RCU stuff are ppc,sparc and s390 and none of those needed that (Xen might join them soon though). But I will have to look and consider this more carefully. I 'lost' most of the ppc/sparc/s390 details from memory to say this with any certainty. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org