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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:33:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc8596e6-8c6c-eb0c-4d59-ee3b97fe881f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <039935bc914009103fdaa6f72f14980c19562de5.1497415951.git.luto@kernel.org>

On 06/13/2017 09:56 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> -	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &batch->cpumask))
> +	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &batch->cpumask)) {
> +		local_irq_disable();
>  		flush_tlb_func_local(&info, TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
> +		local_irq_enable();
> +	}
> +

Could you talk a little about why this needs to be local_irq_disable()
and not preempt_disable()?  Is it about the case where somebody is
trying to call flush_tlb_func_*() from an interrupt handler?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-14 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-14  4:56 [PATCH v2 00/10] PCID and improved laziness Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] x86/ldt: Simplify LDT switching logic Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-15 18:53   ` Rik van Riel
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] x86/mm: Remove reset_lazy_tlbstate() Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-15 19:29   ` Rik van Riel
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] x86/mm: Give each mm TLB flush generation a unique ID Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14 15:54   ` Dave Hansen
2017-06-14 17:16     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] x86/mm: Track the TLB's tlb_gen and update the flushing algorithm Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  6:09   ` Juergen Gross
2017-06-19 22:00     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14 22:33   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-06-14 22:42     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-18  8:06   ` Nadav Amit
2017-06-19 21:58     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] x86/mm: Disable PCID on 32-bit kernels Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] x86/mm: Add nopcid to turn off PCID Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-14  5:30   ` Juergen Gross
2017-06-14  4:56 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-18  6:26   ` Nadav Amit
2017-06-19 22:02     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-06-19 22:53       ` Nadav Amit
2017-06-19 23:04         ` Nadav Amit
2017-06-14 22:18 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] PCID and improved laziness Dave Hansen
2017-06-14 22:48   ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]     ` <CA+55aFw_PYteXjaFZw0vkn4XgOomaqN3JWN-NDh_HdaN8Jb0ZA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <CA+55aFxzXmg3Kkk+NaXYFy4JsQpbUcZ+CGTgTqAdOsOGqA_E_Q@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-14 22:58         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-18 21:29 ` Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
2017-06-19  4:43   ` Andy Lutomirski

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