From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
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Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/3] mm/tlb: allow architectures to skip redundant TLB sync IPIs
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:00:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251213080038.10917-2-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251213080038.10917-1-lance.yang@linux.dev>
From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
When unsharing hugetlb PMD page tables, we currently send two IPIs:
one for TLB invalidation, and another to synchronize with concurrent
GUP-fast walkers.
However, if the TLB flush already reaches all CPUs, the second IPI is
redundant. GUP-fast runs with IRQs disabled, so when the TLB flush IPI
completes, any concurrent GUP-fast must have finished.
Add tlb_table_flush_implies_ipi_broadcast() to let architectures indicate
their TLB flush provides full synchronization, enabling the redundant IPI
to be skipped.
The default implementation returns false to maintain current behavior.
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
---
include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index 324a21f53b64..3f0add95604f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -248,6 +248,21 @@ static inline void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table)
#define tlb_needs_table_invalidate() (true)
#endif
+/*
+ * Architectures can override if their TLB flush already broadcasts IPIs to all
+ * CPUs when freeing or unsharing page tables.
+ *
+ * Return true only when the flush guarantees:
+ * - IPIs reach all CPUs with potentially stale paging-structure cache entries
+ * - Synchronization with IRQ-disabled code like GUP-fast
+ */
+#ifndef tlb_table_flush_implies_ipi_broadcast
+static inline bool tlb_table_flush_implies_ipi_broadcast(void)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+#endif
+
void tlb_remove_table_sync_one(void);
#else
@@ -829,12 +844,17 @@ static inline void tlb_flush_unshared_tables(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
* We only perform this when we are the last sharer of a page table,
* as the IPI will reach all CPUs: any GUP-fast.
*
+ * However, if the TLB flush already synchronized with other CPUs
+ * (indicated by tlb_table_flush_implies_ipi_broadcast()), we can skip
+ * the additional IPI.
+ *
* Note that on configs where tlb_remove_table_sync_one() is a NOP,
* the expectation is that the tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() would have issued
* required IPIs already for us.
*/
if (tlb->fully_unshared_tables) {
- tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
+ if (!tlb_table_flush_implies_ipi_broadcast())
+ tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
tlb->fully_unshared_tables = false;
}
}
--
2.49.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-13 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-13 8:00 [PATCH RFC 0/3] skip redundant TLB sync IPIs Lance Yang
2025-12-13 8:00 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2025-12-15 5:48 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] mm/tlb: allow architectures to " Lance Yang
2025-12-18 13:08 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-13 8:00 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/mm: implement redundant IPI elimination for PMD unsharing Lance Yang
2025-12-18 13:08 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-22 3:19 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/mm: implement redundant IPI elimination for Lance Yang
2025-12-23 9:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-23 11:13 ` Lance Yang
2025-12-13 8:00 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] mm/khugepaged: skip redundant IPI in collapse_huge_page() Lance Yang
2025-12-18 13:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-18 14:35 ` Lance Yang
2025-12-19 8:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2025-12-21 10:43 ` Lance Yang
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