Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm: move tlb_table_flush to tlb_flush_mmu_free

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Sep 06 2018 - 16:30:13 EST


On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 18:47 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> There is no need to call this from tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly, it
> logically belongs with tlb_flush_mmu_free. This allows some
> code consolidation with a subsequent fix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch also fixes an infinite recursion bug
with CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE enabled, which
has this call trace:

tlb_table_flush
-> tlb_table_invalidate
-> tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly
-> tlb_table_flush
-> ... (infinite recursion)

This should probably be applied sooner rather than
later.

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