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Lazy TLB mode can result in an idle CPU being woken up by a TLB flush, when all it really needs to do is reload %CR3 at the next context switch, assuming no page table pages got freed. Memory ordering is used to prevent race conditions between switch_mm_irqs_off, which checks whether .tlb_gen changed, and the TLB invalidation code, which increments .tlb_gen whenever page table entries get invalidated. The atomic increment in inc_mm_tlb_gen is its own barrier; the context switch code adds an explicit barrier between reading tlbstate.is_lazy and next->context.tlb_gen. CPUs in lazy TLB mode remain part of the mm_cpumask(mm), both because that allows TLB flush IPIs to be sent at page table freeing time, and because the cache line bouncing on the mm_cpumask(mm) was responsible for about half the CPU use in switch_mm_irqs_off(). We can change native_flush_tlb_others() without touching other (paravirt) implementations of flush_tlb_others() because we'll be flushing less. The existing implementations flush more and are therefore still correct. Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: mingo@kernel.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: hpa@zytor.com Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180926035844.1420-8-riel@surriel.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.