linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/mm/64: Flush global TLB on boot and AP bringup

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Date:   Thu, 2 Dec 2021 19:19:07 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/mm/64: Flush global TLB on boot and AP bringup

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 01:50:05PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Yeah, that would make sense, but is probably worth its own patch-set.
> Unifying this across arch/x86/ needs to touch a couple more places and
> needs special care so that the function is safe to call from early asm.

I'd gladly review a preparatory patchset doing that. The usual strategy
is, cleanup and refactoring first, new features later.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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