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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: PCID review?
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 13:06:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170207210651.GB30506@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVSiS22KLvYxZarexFHa3C7Z-ys_Lt2WV_63b4-tuRpQA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 10:56:59AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Quite a few people have expressed interest in enabling PCID on (x86)
> Linux.  Here's the code:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=x86/pcid
> 
> The main hold-up is that the code needs to be reviewed very carefully.
> It's quite subtle.  In particular, "x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB
> entries using PCID" ought to be looked at carefully to make sure the
> locking is right, but there are plenty of other ways this this could
> all break.
> 
> Anyone want to take a look or maybe scare up some other reviewers?
> (Kees, you seemed *really* excited about getting this in.)

Cool!

So I can drop 61ec4c556b0d "rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of
->dynticks counter", correct?

							Thanx, Paul

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-07 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-07 18:56 PCID review? Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-07 19:11 ` Kees Cook
2017-02-07 19:24   ` Thomas Garnier
2017-02-07 19:37 ` Nadav Amit
2017-02-08 16:24   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-07 21:06 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-02-08 16:25   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-08 16:52     ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-02-08 20:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-09  0:10   ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-10  2:46     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-10 11:01       ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-10 16:44         ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-10 21:57           ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-10 22:07             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-10 22:25               ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-10 22:58                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-02-13 10:05               ` Mel Gorman

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