linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/mmu_gather: Enable RCU_TABLE

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Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:14:54 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...il.com, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        will@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/mmu_gather: Enable RCU_TABLE_FREE even
 for !SMP case


I'm going to assume you'll take these 3 patches through the powerpc tree
for convenience, a few small nits, but otherwise ACK on the lot.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:05:28AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> A follow up patch is going to make sure we correctly invalidate page walk cache
> before we free page table pages. In order to keep things simple enable
> RCU_TABLE_FREE even for !SMP so that we don't have to fixup the !SMP case
> differently in the followup patch

Perhaps more clearly state that !SMP is broken for Radix/PWC. The above
sorta implies it is, but it's not spelled out in any detail.

> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>