On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 05:30:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Will noted that only checking mm_users is incorrect; we should also
> check mm_count in order to cover CPUs that have a lazy reference to
> this mm (and could do speculative TLB operations).
>
> If removing this turns out to be a performance issue, we can
> re-instate a more complete check, but in tlb_table_flush() eliding the
> call_rcu_sched().
>
> Cc: sta...@kernel.org
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
> Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
> Fixes: 267239116987 ("mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into
> generic code")
> Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 9 ---------
> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Cheers,
Will
