From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx167.postini.com [74.125.245.167]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B0BD6B0072 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 06:10:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:09:21 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: TLB and PTE coherency during munmap Message-ID: <20130603100921.GA25367@localhost.cambridge.arm.com> References: <51A45861.1010008@gmail.com> <20130529122728.GA27176@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <51A5F7A7.5020604@synopsys.com> <20130529175125.GJ12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20130603090501.GI5910@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20130603091621.GA23320@gmail.com> <20130603100444.GB8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130603100444.GB8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , Max Filippov , Vineet Gupta , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , linux-mm , Ralf Baechle , Chris Zankel , Marc Gauthier , "linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org" , Hugh Dickins , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:04:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:01:39AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On ARM there is a lot of ongoing work on single zImage for multiple > > SoCs and this implies SMP kernels. There is an SMP_ON_UP feature which > > does run-time code patching to optimise the UP case in a few places. > > > > Regarding tlb_fast_mode(), the ARM-specific implementation is always 0 > > on ARMv7 even if UP because of speculative TLB loads (the MMU could > > pretty much act as a separate processor). > > Oh right.. I should really refresh the mmu_gather unification patches so > all archs are using the generic code. That would be great! I'll help with testing/review (or if it needs anything else) from an arm/arm64 perspective. Thanks. -- Catalin -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org