linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/18] asm-generic/tlb: Invert HAVE_RCU_TABLE

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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:36:30 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     will.deacon@....com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...il.com
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, riel@...riel.com
Subject: [PATCH 07/18] asm-generic/tlb: Invert HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE

Make issuing a TLB invalidate for page-table pages the normal case.

The reason is twofold:

 - too many invalidates is safer than too few,
 - most architectures use the linux page-tables natively
   and would thus require this.

Make it an opt-out, instead of an opt-in.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 arch/Kconfig              |    2 +-
 arch/arm64/Kconfig        |    1 -
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig      |    1 +
 arch/sparc/Kconfig        |    1 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig          |    1 -
 include/asm-generic/tlb.h |    9 +++++----
 mm/mmu_gather.c           |    2 +-
 7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
 config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	bool
 
-config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE
+config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
 	bool
 
 config HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
-	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE
 	select HAVE_RSEQ
 	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_PERF_REGS
 	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE		if SMP
+	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE	if HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE		if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ config SPARC64
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
 	select HAVE_KPROBES
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP
+	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE if HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_PERF_REGS
 	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
 	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE		if PARAVIRT
-	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE	if HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
 	select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE		if X86_64 && (UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER || UNWINDER_ORC) && STACK_VALIDATION
 	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR		if CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -127,11 +127,12 @@
  *  When used, an architecture is expected to provide __tlb_remove_table()
  *  which does the actual freeing of these pages.
  *
- *  HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE
+ *  HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
  *
- *  This makes HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE call tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() before freeing
- *  the page-table pages. Required if you use HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE and your
- *  architecture uses the Linux page-tables natively.
+ *  This makes HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE avoid calling tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() before
+ *  freeing the page-table pages. This can be avoided if you use
+ *  HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE and your architecture does _NOT_ use the Linux
+ *  page-tables natively.
  *
  */
 #define HAVE_GENERIC_MMU_GATHER
--- a/mm/mmu_gather.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ bool __tlb_remove_page_size(struct mmu_g
  */
 static inline void tlb_table_invalidate(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE
+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE
 	/*
 	 * Invalidate page-table caches used by hardware walkers. Then we still
 	 * need to RCU-sched wait while freeing the pages because software