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Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for local TLB flushes

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> On May 25, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On a remote TLB flush, we leave_mm() if we're TLBSTATE_LAZY.  For a
> local flush_tlb_mm_range(), we leave_mm() if !current->mm.  These
> are approximately the same condition -- the scheduler sets lazy TLB
> mode when switching to a thread with no mm.
> 
> I'm about to merge the local and remote flush code, but for ease of
> verifying and bisecting the patch, I want the local and remote flush
> behavior to match first.  This patch changes the local code to match
> the remote code.
> 
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> index 776469cc54e0..3143c9a180e5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
> +++ 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());

Maybe it is an overkill, but you may want to have two variants: leave_mm()
and leave_mm_irq_off(). Currently, leave_mm() does not disable IRQs, but
in patch 6 it does. Here you indeed need to disable IRQs, but the cases
in prior to this patch - you do not.

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[PATCH v3 0/8] x86 TLB flush cleanups, moving toward PCID support Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 02:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 6/8] x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB to track the actual loaded mm Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 02:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for local TLB flushes Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 02:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for  local TLB flushes Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-26 03:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for local  TLB flushes Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 04:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for  local TLB flushes Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-05-26 15:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/mm: Change the leave_mm() condition for local  TLB flushes Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 5/8] x86/mm: Remove the UP tlbflush code; always use the formerly SMP code Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 02:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 1/8] x86/mm: Pass flush_tlb_info to flush_tlb_others() etc Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 02:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 4/8] x86/mm: Use new merged flush logic in arch_tlbbatch_flush() Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-26 02:50 +0200

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