On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 11:01:44AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote: > The IPI broadcast is used to serialize against fast-GUP, but fast-GUP > will move to use RCU instead of disabling local interrupts in fast-GUP. > Using an IPI is the old-styled way of serializing against fast-GUP > although it still works as expected now. > > And fast-GUP now fixed the potential race with THP collapse by checking > whether PMD is changed or not. So IPI broadcast in radix pmd collapse > flush is not necessary anymore. But it is still needed for hash TLB. > > Suggested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> -- Peter Xu
