Re: [PATCH mk-II 08/17] asm-generic/tlb: Provide MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 27 2020 - 03:12:10 EST


On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 07:52:05AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:32:05AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > As described in the comment, the correct order for freeing pages is:
> >
> > 1) unhook page
> > 2) TLB invalidate page
> > 3) free page
> >
> > This order equally applies to page directories.
> >
> > Currently there are two correct options:
> >
> > - use tlb_remove_page(), when all page directores are full pages and
> > there are no futher contraints placed by things like software
> > walkers (HAVE_FAST_GUP).
> >
> > - use MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE and tlb_remove_table() when the
> > architecture does not do IPI based TLB invalidate and has
> > HAVE_FAST_GUP (or software TLB fill).
> >
> > This however leaves architectures that don't have page based
> > directories but don't need RCU in a bind. For those, provide
> > MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE, which provides the independent batching for
> > directories without the additional RCU freeing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Various sparc64 builds (allnoconfig, tinyconfig, as well as builds
> with SMP disabled):
>
> mm/mmu_gather.c: In function '__tlb_remove_table_free':
> mm/mmu_gather.c:101:3: error: implicit declaration of function '__tlb_remove_table'; did you mean 'tlb_remove_table'?

Thanks; I'll respin these patches against Aneesh' pile and make sure to
look into this when I do so.