[PATCH v2 06/10] arm64: tlbflush: avoid flushing when fullmm == 1
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Oct 6 10:46:26 PDT 2015
The TLB gather code sets fullmm=1 when tearing down the entire address
space for an mm_struct on exit or execve. Given that the ASID allocator
will never re-allocate a dirty ASID, this flushing is not needed and can
simply be avoided in the flushing code.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h
index d6e6b6660380..ffdaea7954bb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h
@@ -37,17 +37,21 @@ static inline void __tlb_remove_table(void *_table)
static inline void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
{
- if (tlb->fullmm) {
- flush_tlb_mm(tlb->mm);
- } else {
- struct vm_area_struct vma = { .vm_mm = tlb->mm, };
- /*
- * The intermediate page table levels are already handled by
- * the __(pte|pmd|pud)_free_tlb() functions, so last level
- * TLBI is sufficient here.
- */
- __flush_tlb_range(&vma, tlb->start, tlb->end, true);
- }
+ struct vm_area_struct vma = { .vm_mm = tlb->mm, };
+
+ /*
+ * The ASID allocator will either invalidate the ASID or mark
+ * it as used.
+ */
+ if (tlb->fullmm)
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * The intermediate page table levels are already handled by
+ * the __(pte|pmd|pud)_free_tlb() functions, so last level
+ * TLBI is sufficient here.
+ */
+ __flush_tlb_range(&vma, tlb->start, tlb->end, true);
}
static inline void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pgtable_t pte,
--
2.1.4
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