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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:27:00 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and
 flush_tlb_current_task()

Commit-ID:  29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
AuthorDate: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:01:20 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 +0200

x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()

I was trying to figure out what how flush_tlb_current_task() would
possibly work correctly if current->mm != current->active_mm, but I
realized I could spare myself the effort: it has no callers except
the unused flush_tlb() macro.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e52d64c11690f85e9f1d69d7b48cc2269cd2e94b.1492844372.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |  9 ---------
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               | 17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 75d002b..6ed9ea4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_one(unsigned long addr)
 /*
  * TLB flushing:
  *
- *  - flush_tlb() flushes the current mm struct TLBs
  *  - flush_tlb_all() flushes all processes TLBs
  *  - flush_tlb_mm(mm) flushes the specified mm context TLB's
  *  - flush_tlb_page(vma, vmaddr) flushes one page
@@ -247,11 +246,6 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_all(void)
 	__flush_tlb_all();
 }
 
-static inline void flush_tlb(void)
-{
-	__flush_tlb_up();
-}
-
 static inline void local_flush_tlb(void)
 {
 	__flush_tlb_up();
@@ -313,14 +307,11 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start,
 		flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end, vma->vm_flags)
 
 extern void flush_tlb_all(void);
-extern void flush_tlb_current_task(void);
 extern void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
 extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 				unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag);
 extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 
-#define flush_tlb()	flush_tlb_current_task()
-
 void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 				struct mm_struct *mm,
 				unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index a7655f6..92ec37f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -289,23 +289,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 	smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func, &info, 1);
 }
 
-void flush_tlb_current_task(void)
-{
-	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-
-	preempt_disable();
-
-	count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL);
-
-	/* This is an implicit full barrier that synchronizes with switch_mm. */
-	local_flush_tlb();
-
-	trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids)
-		flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	preempt_enable();
-}
-
 /*
  * See Documentation/x86/tlb.txt for details.  We choose 33
  * because it is large enough to cover the vast majority (at