Patch "x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:01:20 -0700
Subject: x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b upstream.

I was trying to figure out what how flush_tlb_current_task() would
possibly work correctly if current->mm != current->active_mm, but I
realized I could spare myself the effort: it has no callers except
the unused flush_tlb() macro.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e52d64c11690f85e9f1d69d7b48cc2269cd2e94b.1492844372.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |    9 ---------
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               |   17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 26 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_one(unsig
 /*
  * TLB flushing:
  *
- *  - flush_tlb() flushes the current mm struct TLBs
  *  - flush_tlb_all() flushes all processes TLBs
  *  - flush_tlb_mm(mm) flushes the specified mm context TLB's
  *  - flush_tlb_page(vma, vmaddr) flushes one page
@@ -237,11 +236,6 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_all(void)
 	__flush_tlb_all();
 }
 
-static inline void flush_tlb(void)
-{
-	__flush_tlb_up();
-}
-
 static inline void local_flush_tlb(void)
 {
 	__flush_tlb_up();
@@ -303,14 +297,11 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_rang
 		flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end, vma->vm_flags)
 
 extern void flush_tlb_all(void);
-extern void flush_tlb_current_task(void);
 extern void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
 extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 				unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag);
 extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 
-#define flush_tlb()	flush_tlb_current_task()
-
 void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 				struct mm_struct *mm,
 				unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -287,23 +287,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struc
 	smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func, &info, 1);
 }
 
-void flush_tlb_current_task(void)
-{
-	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-
-	preempt_disable();
-
-	count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL);
-
-	/* This is an implicit full barrier that synchronizes with switch_mm. */
-	local_flush_tlb();
-
-	trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids)
-		flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	preempt_enable();
-}
-
 /*
  * See Documentation/x86/tlb.txt for details.  We choose 33
  * because it is large enough to cover the vast majority (at


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-make-flush_tlb_mm_range-more-predictable.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch