Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] x86/mm/tlb: Open-code on_each_cpu_cond_mask() for tlb_is_not_lazy()

From: Nadav Amit
Date: Fri Jul 19 2019 - 14:41:16 EST


> On Jul 19, 2019, at 11:36 AM, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/18/19 5:58 PM, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> @@ -865,7 +893,7 @@ void arch_tlbbatch_flush(struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch)
>> if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &batch->cpumask)) {
>> lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled();
>> local_irq_disable();
>> - flush_tlb_func_local(&full_flush_tlb_info);
>> + flush_tlb_func_local((void *)&full_flush_tlb_info);
>> local_irq_enable();
>> }
>
> This looks like superfluous churn. Is it?

Unfortunately not, since full_flush_tlb_info is defined as const. Without it
you would get:

warning: passing argument 1 of âflush_tlb_func_localâ discards âconstâ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]

And flush_tlb_func_local() should get (void *) argument since it is also
used by the SMP infrastructure.