linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 02/10] x86/mm: Remove reset_lazy

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Date:   Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:56:20 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 02/10] x86/mm: Remove reset_lazy_tlbstate()

The only call site also calls idle_task_exit(), and idle_task_exit()
puts us into a clean state by explicitly switching to init_mm.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 8 --------
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c       | 1 -
 2 files changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 5f78c6a77578..50ea3482e1d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -259,14 +259,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 #define TLBSTATE_OK	1
 #define TLBSTATE_LAZY	2
 
-static inline void reset_lazy_tlbstate(void)
-{
-	this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, 0);
-	this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm, &init_mm);
-
-	WARN_ON(read_cr3_pa() != __pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir));
-}
-
 static inline void arch_tlbbatch_add_mm(struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch,
 					struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index f04479a8f74f..6169a56aab49 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1589,7 +1589,6 @@ void native_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
 void play_dead_common(void)
 {
 	idle_task_exit();
-	reset_lazy_tlbstate();
 
 	/* Ack it */
 	(void)cpu_report_death();
-- 
2.9.4