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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/11] mm,thp: introduce flush_pmd_tlb_range
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:33:12 +0530 Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> wrote:

> --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> +++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> @@ -84,6 +84,19 @@ pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>
> +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_FLUSH_PMD_TLB_RANGE
> +
> +/*
> + * ARCHes with special requirements for evicting THP backing TLB entries can
> + * implement this. Otherwise also, it can help optimizing thp flush operation.
> + * flush_tlb_range() can have optimization to nuke the entire TLB if flush span
> + * is greater than a threashhold, which will likely be true for a single
> + * huge page.
> + * e.g. see arch/arc: flush_pmd_tlb_range
> + */
> +#define flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, addr, end) flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, end)
> +#endif

Did you consider using a __weak function here?




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