[PATCH v4 1/2] mm/tlbbatch: Introduce arch_tlbbatch_should_defer()

[Yicong Yang]

From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The entire scheme of deferred TLB flush in reclaim path rests on the
fact that the cost to refill TLB entries is less than flushing out
individual entries by sending IPI to remote CPUs. But architecture
can have different ways to evaluate that. Hence apart from checking
TTU_BATCH_FLUSH in the TTU flags, rest of the decision should be
architecture specific.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20171101101735.2318-2-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com/]
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong at hisilicon.com>
[Rebase and fix incorrect return value type]
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 mm/rmap.c                       |  9 +--------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index cda3118f3b27..8a497d902c16 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -240,6 +240,18 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long a)
 	flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, a, a + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHIFT, false);
 }
 
+static inline bool arch_tlbbatch_should_defer(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	bool should_defer = false;
+
+	/* If remote CPUs need to be flushed then defer batch the flush */
+	if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), get_cpu()) < nr_cpu_ids)
+		should_defer = true;
+	put_cpu();
+
+	return should_defer;
+}
+
 static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	/*
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 93d5a6f793d2..cd8cf5cb0b01 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -690,17 +690,10 @@ static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm, bool writable)
  */
 static bool should_defer_flush(struct mm_struct *mm, enum ttu_flags flags)
 {
-	bool should_defer = false;
-
 	if (!(flags & TTU_BATCH_FLUSH))
 		return false;
 
-	/* If remote CPUs need to be flushed then defer batch the flush */
-	if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), get_cpu()) < nr_cpu_ids)
-		should_defer = true;
-	put_cpu();
-
-	return should_defer;
+	return arch_tlbbatch_should_defer(mm);
 }
 
 /*
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