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Message-Id: <E0013E72-E192-4405-A78D-5D41069ECF76@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:19:36 -0800
From: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/20] mm/tlb: fix fullmm semantics
> On Jan 30, 2021, at 5:02 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 4:16 PM Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com> wrote:
>> From: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
>>
>> fullmm in mmu_gather is supposed to indicate that the mm is torn-down
>> (e.g., on process exit) and can therefore allow certain optimizations.
>> However, tlb_finish_mmu() sets fullmm, when in fact it want to say that
>> the TLB should be fully flushed.
>
> Maybe also rename fullmm?
Possible. How about mm_torn_down?
I should have also changed the comment in tlb_finish_mmu().
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