From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764310AbdEZNZf (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2017 09:25:35 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51582 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761361AbdEZNZb (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2017 09:25:31 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com B96257D4EB Authentication-Results: ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx04.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=riel@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com B96257D4EB Message-ID: <1495805128.29205.64.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for local TLB flushes From: Rik van Riel To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: X86 ML , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Nadav Amit , Dave Hansen , Nadav Amit , Michal Hocko , Arjan van de Ven Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 09:25:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <61de238db6d9c9018db020c41047ce32dac64488.1495759610.git.luto@kernel.org> <1495762747.29205.63.camel@redhat.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]); Fri, 26 May 2017 13:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 19:01 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Rik van Riel > wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 17:47 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c > > > @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, > > > unsigned long start, > > >               goto out; > > >       } > > > > > > -     if (!current->mm) { > > > +     if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) != TLBSTATE_OK) { > > >               leave_mm(smp_processor_id()); > > > > Unless -mm changed leave_mm (I did not check), this > > is not quite correct yet. > > > > The reason is leave_mm (at least in the latest Linus > > tree) ignores the cpu argument for one of its checks. > > > > You should probably fix that in an earlier patch, > > assuming you haven't already done so in -mm. > > > > void leave_mm(int cpu) > > { > >         struct mm_struct *active_mm = > > this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm); > >         if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) == TLBSTATE_OK) > >                 BUG(); > >         if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm))) { > >                 cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm)); > >                 load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir); > > I agree it's odd, but what's the bug?  Both before and after, > leave_mm > needed to be called with cpu == smp_processor_id(), and > smp_processor_id() warns if it's called in a preemptible context. Indeed, you are right. Looking at too much code at once...