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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
 Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: thp: Use tlbiel wherever possible
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"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> If we know that user address space has never executed on other cpus
> we could use tlbiel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Now checking against flush_hash_page, I am wondering whether I need to handle
transcational memory in case of tlbiel ? Michael, can you let me know if
this is needed ?


-aneesh