linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 08/11] asm-generic/tlb: Track freeing of page-table directories in struct mmu

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Date:   Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:44:57 +1000
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        benh@....ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        catalin.marinas@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/11] asm-generic/tlb: Track freeing of page-table
 directories in struct mmu_gather

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:52:43 +0100
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com> wrote:

> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> 
> Some architectures require different TLB invalidation instructions
> depending on whether it is only the last-level of page table being
> changed, or whether there are also changes to the intermediate
> (directory) entries higher up the tree.
> 
> Add a new bit to the flags bitfield in struct mmu_gather so that the
> architecture code can operate accordingly if it's the intermediate
> levels being invalidated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

powerpc should be able to move right over to using this rather
than keeping the bit in need_flush_all.

powerpc may be able to use the unmap granule thing to improve
its page size dependent flushes, but it might prefer to go
a different way and track start-end for different page sizes.
I wonder how much of that stuff should go into generic code,
and whether it should instead go into a struct arch_mmu_gather.

Thanks,
Nick