Do we need to disable preemption in flush_tlb_range()?

Alexey Brodkin Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Thu Mar 1 07:13:10 PST 2018


Hi Vineet,

Just noticed that in comments for smp_call_function_many() it is said that
preemption must be disabled during its execution. And that function gets executed
among other ways like that:
-------------------------->8-----------------------
  flush_tlb_range()
    -> on_each_cpu_mask()
         -> smp_call_function_many()
-------------------------->8-----------------------

I'm not seeing right now any real problem with current implementation but
some architectures do that thus the question.

-Alexey


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