On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:24:24PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > So __p*_free_tlb() routines on ppc64 just mark that we need a page walk > cache flush and the actual flush in done in tlb_flush_mmu. Not quite, your __p*_free_tlb() goes to pgtable_free_tlb() which call tlb_remove_table(). > As per > > d86564a2f085b79ec046a5cba90188e61235280 (mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support > invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE ) that is not sufficient? 96bc9567cbe1 ("asm-generic/tlb, arch: Invert CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_INVALIDATE") And no. Since you have TABLE_NO_INVALIDATE set, tlb_remove_table() will not TLBI when it fails to allocate a batch page, which is an error for PPC-Radix. There is also no TLBI when the batch page is full and the RCU callback happens, which is also a bug on PPC-Radix.