[PATCH 3/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Remove unused start/end arguments from tlb_finish_mmu()

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:20:43AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:36 AM Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > tlb_finish_mmu() takes two confusing and unused 'start'/'end' address
> > arguments. Remove them.
> 
> Ack, but please add the history to it.
> 
> Those arguments were used, up until 7a30df49f63a ("mm: mmu_gather:
> remove __tlb_reset_range() for force flush").
> 
> And the thing is, using a range flush in theory might be better, but
> for simplicity it's now doing a "fullmm" one, which is why those
> arguments no longer matter.
> 
> (And I think we track the range better now too, which may be another
> reason they aren't needed)

Yes, thanks for digging that up. I'll add it to the commit message in v2.

Will