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Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API

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On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 05:08:15PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> 
> This patch is a preparatory patch for solving race problems caused by
> TLB batch.  For that, we will increase/decrease TLB flush pending count
> of mm_struct whenever tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu is called.
> 
> Before making it simple, this patch separates architecture specific
> part and rename it to arch_tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu and generic part
> just calls it.

I absolutely hate this. We should unify this stuff, not diverge it
further.

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[PATCH v6 0/7] fixes of TLB batching races Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> - 2017-08-02 09:40 +0200
  [PATCH v6 5/7] mm: make tlb_flush_pending global Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> - 2017-08-02 09:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] mm: make tlb_flush_pending global Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 01:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] mm: make tlb_flush_pending global Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-08-03 01:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] mm: make tlb_flush_pending global Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 5/7] mm: make tlb_flush_pending global kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-08-03 18:50 +0200
  [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> - 2017-08-02 09:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-08-11 11:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> - 2017-08-11 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] fixes of TLB batching races Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-08-03 01:30 +0200

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