linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] riscv: Improve flush_tlb_kernel

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Message-Id: <C92430BE-4DA3-487B-BFD2-58EE4A93396F@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 13:22:13 -0700
From:   Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
To:     "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mayuresh Chitale <mchitale@...tanamicro.com>,
        Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@...ive.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] riscv: Improve flush_tlb_kernel_range()



> On Sep 6, 2023, at 4:48 AM, Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 9:58 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This function used to simply flush the whole tlb of all harts, be more
>> subtile and try to only flush the range.
>> 
>> The problem is that we can only use PAGE_SIZE as stride since we don't know
>> the size of the underlying mapping and then this function will be improved
>> only if the size of the region to flush is < threshold * PAGE_SIZE.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
>> ---
>> arch/riscv/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 11 +++++-----
>> arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c          | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>> 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>> 
> After applying this patch, I am seeing module load issues on RZ/Five
> (complete log [0]). I am testing defconfig + [1] (rz/five related
> configs).
> 
> Any pointers on what could be an issue here?

None of my business, but looking at your code, it seems that you do not memory
barrier before reading mm_cpumask() in __flush_tlb_range(). I believe you
would want to synchronize __flush_tlb_range with switch_mm() similarly to the
way it is done in x86.