linux-kernel - [PATCH] i386: don't check_pgt_cache in flush_tlb

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705151946550.30826@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 19:51:05 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] i386: don't check_pgt_cache in flush_tlb_mm

No other architecture calls check_pgt_cache() from within flush_tlb_mm(),
and i386 is already calling check_pgt_cache() from the usual places,
tlb_finish_mmu() and cpu_idle() (the latter being odd, but not unusual).
flush_tlb_mm() has no business to be freeing pages: remove that line,
which sneaked in with slub's i386 support.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
---
 arch/i386/kernel/smp.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 2.6.22-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c	2007-05-13 05:40:51.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c	2007-05-15 17:49:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ void flush_tlb_mm (struct mm_struct * mm
 	}
 	if (!cpus_empty(cpu_mask))
 		flush_tlb_others(cpu_mask, mm, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	check_pgt_cache();
+
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
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