This is a rebase now on top of Arnd's asm-generic tree, which has reduced most of the fluff from this patch series. The x86 refactoring is still in the way a bit, I hope to get some movement on that rather than rebase the main patches off it, because I think it's a good cleanup. I think it could go in a generic mm/scheduler series if we get arch acks because it's really just refactoring wrappers. The main result is reduced contention on lazy tlb mm refcount that helps very big systems. Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (8): lazy tlb: introduce exit_lazy_tlb x86: use exit_lazy_tlb rather than membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode x86: remove ARCH_HAS_SYNC_CORE_BEFORE_USERMODE lazy tlb: introduce lazy mm refcount helper functions lazy tlb: allow lazy tlb mm switching to be configurable lazy tlb: shoot lazies, a non-refcounting lazy tlb option powerpc: use lazy mm refcount helper functions powerpc/64s: enable MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN .../membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 6 +- arch/Kconfig | 24 +++++ arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c | 3 +- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c | 5 +- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 - arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 27 ++++++ arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/gruhandles.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c | 2 +- fs/exec.c | 6 +- include/asm-generic/mmu_context.h | 21 ++++ include/linux/sched/mm.h | 34 ++++--- include/linux/sync_core.h | 21 ---- init/Kconfig | 3 - kernel/cpu.c | 6 +- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- kernel/fork.c | 53 ++++++++++ kernel/kthread.c | 12 ++- kernel/sched/core.c | 97 +++++++++++++------ kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 +- 24 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 include/linux/sync_core.h -- 2.23.0