[PATCH 2/4] mm: rmap: Allow platforms without mm_cpumask to defer TLB flush

[Barry Song]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 8:08 PM Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 7, 2022, at 11:59 PM, Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> The cpumask_empty() is indeed just another memory access, which is most
> >> likely ok. But wouldn’t adding something like CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MM_CPUMASK
> >> make the code simpler and (slightly, certainly slightly) more performant?
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> > Yep. good suggestion, Nadav. So the code will be as below, right?
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> Hmmm… Although it is likely to work (because only x86 and arm would use this
> batch flushing), I think that for consistency ARCH_HAS_MM_CPUMASK should be
> correct for all architectures.
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> Is it really only x86 that has mm_cpumask()?

i am quite sure there are some other platforms having mm_cpumask().
for example, arm(not arm64).
but i am not exactly sure of the situation of each individual arch. thus,
i don't risk changing their source code.
but arm64 is the second platform looking for tlbbatch, and
ARCH_HAS_MM_CPUMASK only affects tlbbatch. so i would
expect those platforms to fill their ARCH_HAS_MM_CPUMASK
while they start to bringup their tlbbatch? for this moment,
we only need to make certain we don't break x86?
does it make sense?

Thanks
Barry


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