From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751451AbdKVTaw (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:30:52 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:55408 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751260AbdKVTau (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:30:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:30:50 +0000 From: Will Deacon To: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim , Wang Nan , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bob Liu , Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Ingo Molnar , Roman Gushchin , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch, mm: introduce arch_tlb_gather_mmu_lazy Message-ID: <20171122193049.GI22648@arm.com> References: <20171107095453.179940-1-wangnan0@huawei.com> <20171110001933.GA12421@bbox> <20171110101529.op6yaxtdke2p4bsh@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171110122635.q26xdxytgdfjy5q3@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171115173332.GL19071@arm.com> <20171116092042.esxqtnfxdrozfwey@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20171120142444.GA32488@arm.com> <20171120160422.5ieustt5ovbyelyx@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171120160422.5ieustt5ovbyelyx@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Michal, On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:04:22PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 20-11-17 14:24:44, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:20:42AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > On Wed 15-11-17 17:33:32, Will Deacon wrote: > [...] > > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h > > > > > index ffdaea7954bb..7adde19b2bcc 100644 > > > > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h > > > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h > > > > > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static inline void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb) > > > > > * The ASID allocator will either invalidate the ASID or mark > > > > > * it as used. > > > > > */ > > > > > - if (tlb->fullmm) > > > > > + if (tlb->lazy) > > > > > return; > > > > > > > > This looks like the right idea, but I'd rather make this check: > > > > > > > > if (tlb->fullmm && tlb->lazy) > > > > > > > > since the optimisation doesn't work for anything than tearing down the > > > > entire address space. > > > > > > OK, that makes sense. > > > > > > > Alternatively, I could actually go check MMF_UNSTABLE in tlb->mm, which > > > > would save you having to add an extra flag in the first place, e.g.: > > > > > > > > if (tlb->fullmm && !test_bit(MMF_UNSTABLE, &tlb->mm->flags)) > > > > > > > > which is a nice one-liner. > > > > > > But that would make it oom_reaper specific. What about the softdirty > > > case Minchan has mentioned earlier? > > > > We don't (yet) support that on arm64, so we're ok for now. If we do grow > > support for it, then I agree that we want a flag to identify the case where > > the address space is going away and only elide the invalidation then. > > What do you think about the following patch instead? I have to confess > I do not really understand the fullmm semantic so I might introduce some > duplication by this flag. If you think this is a good idea, I will post > it in a separate thread. Please do! My only suggestion would be s/lazy/exit/, since I don't think the optimisation works in any other situation than the address space going away for good. Will