linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86: Move DEBUG

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:47:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Changbin Du <changbin.du@...el.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE 32-BIT AND 64-BIT" <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86: Move DEBUG_TLBFLUSH option.

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Atish Patra wrote:

> CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH was added in
> 
> 'commit 3df3212f9722 ("x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs")'
> to support tlb_flushall_shift knob. The knob was removed in
> 
> 'commit e9f4e0a9fe27 ("x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy
> TLB flushing")'.
> However, the debug option was never removed from Kconfig. It was reused
> in commit
> 
> '9824cf9753ec ("mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters")'
> but the commit text was never updated accordingly.
> 
> Update the Kconfig option description as per its current usage.
> 
> Take this opportunity to make this kconfig option a common option as it
> touches the common vmstat code. Introduce another arch specific config
> HAVE_ARCH_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH that can be selected to enable this config.

Looks like this one still needs to be merged or acked by one of the x86 
maintainers?


- Paul