As the comment notes; it is a potentially dangerous operation. Just use tlb_flush_mmu(), that will skip the (double) TLB invalidate if it really isn't needed anyway. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 10 +++------- mm/memory.c | 2 +- mm/mmu_gather.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h @@ -67,16 +67,13 @@ * call before __tlb_remove_page*() to set the current page-size; implies a * possible tlb_flush_mmu() call. * - * - tlb_flush_mmu() / tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() / tlb_flush_mmu_free() + * - tlb_flush_mmu() / tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() * * tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() - does the TLB invalidate (and resets * related state, like the range) * - * tlb_flush_mmu_free() - frees the queued pages; make absolutely - * sure no additional tlb_remove_page() - * calls happen between _tlbonly() and this. - * - * tlb_flush_mmu() - the above two calls. + * tlb_flush_mmu() - in addition to the above TLB invalidate, also frees + * whatever pages are still batched. * * - mmu_gather::fullmm * @@ -274,7 +271,6 @@ void arch_tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gath void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb); void arch_tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool force); -void tlb_flush_mmu_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb); static inline void __tlb_adjust_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long address, --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struc */ if (force_flush) { force_flush = 0; - tlb_flush_mmu_free(tlb); + tlb_flush_mmu(tlb); if (addr != end) goto again; } --- a/mm/mmu_gather.c +++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ bool __tlb_remove_page_size(struct mmu_g #endif /* HAVE_MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER */ -void tlb_flush_mmu_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb) +static void tlb_flush_mmu_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb) { #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE tlb_table_flush(tlb);