linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] x86: mm: Clean up inconsistencies when flushing TLB ranges

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Message-Id: <1386964870-6690-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:01:07 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>, Linux-X86 <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] x86: mm: Clean up inconsistencies when flushing TLB ranges

NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL is not always accounted for correctly and the
comparison with total_vm is done before taking tlb_flushall_shift into
account. Clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index ae699b3..09b8cb8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 {
 	unsigned long addr;
 	unsigned act_entries, tlb_entries = 0;
+	unsigned long nr_base_pages;
 
 	preempt_disable();
 	if (current->active_mm != mm)
@@ -210,18 +211,17 @@ void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 		tlb_entries = tlb_lli_4k[ENTRIES];
 	else
 		tlb_entries = tlb_lld_4k[ENTRIES];
+
 	/* Assume all of TLB entries was occupied by this task */
-	act_entries = mm->total_vm > tlb_entries ? tlb_entries : mm->total_vm;
+	act_entries = tlb_entries >> tlb_flushall_shift;
+	act_entries = mm->total_vm > act_entries ? act_entries : mm->total_vm;
+	nr_base_pages = (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
 	/* tlb_flushall_shift is on balance point, details in commit log */
-	if ((end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT > act_entries >> tlb_flushall_shift) {
+	if (nr_base_pages > act_entries || has_large_page(mm, start, end)) {
 		count_vm_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL);
 		local_flush_tlb();
 	} else {
-		if (has_large_page(mm, start, end)) {
-			local_flush_tlb();
-			goto flush_all;
-		}
 		/* flush range by one by one 'invlpg' */
 		for (addr = start; addr < end;	addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 			count_vm_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ONE);
-- 
1.8.4

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