linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/thp/migration: switch from flush_tlb_range to flush_pmd_tlb

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Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:24:36 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/thp/migration: switch from flush_tlb_range to flush_pmd_tlb_range

We remove one instace of flush_tlb_range here. That was added by
f714f4f20e59ea6eea264a86b9a51fd51b88fc54 ("mm: numa: call MMU notifiers
on THP migration"). But the pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify should have
done the require flush for us. Hence remove the extra flush.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index b1034f9c77e7..c079c115d038 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1767,7 +1767,10 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		put_page(new_page);
 		goto out_fail;
 	}
-
+	/*
+	 * We are not sure a pending tlb flush here is for a huge page
+	 * mapping or not. Hence use the tlb range variant
+	 */
 	if (mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm))
 		flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 
@@ -1823,12 +1826,11 @@ fail_putback:
 	page_add_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, mmun_start, true);
 	pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify(vma, mmun_start, pmd);
 	set_pmd_at(mm, mmun_start, pmd, entry);
-	flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 	update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, &entry);
 
 	if (page_count(page) != 2) {
 		set_pmd_at(mm, mmun_start, pmd, orig_entry);
-		flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
+		flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 		mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 		update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, address, &entry);
 		page_remove_rmap(new_page, true);
-- 
2.5.0