On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 18:24 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 17:00 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > BTW, looking at your tlb-unify branch, does tlb_remove_table() call > > tlb_flush/tlb_flush_mmu before freeing the tables? I can only see > > tlb_remove_page() doing this. On ARM, even UP, we need the TLB flushing > > after clearing the pmd and before freeing the pte page table (and > > ideally doing it less often than at every pte_free_tlb() call). > > No I don't think it does, so far the only archs using the RCU stuff are > ppc,sparc and s390 and none of those needed that (Xen might join them > soon though). But I will have to look and consider this more carefully. > I 'lost' most of the ppc/sparc/s390 details from memory to say this with > any certainty. Hmm, no, thinking more that does indeed sounds strange, I'll still have to consider it more carefully, but I think you might have found a bug there. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
