On 06/01/2025 04:49, Qi Zheng wrote:
> [...]
>
>> Once this is done, we should be able to replace all those confusing
>> calls to tlb_remove_page() on PTPs with tlb_remove_table() and remove
>> the explicit call to pagetable_dtor(). AIUI this is essentially what
>> Peter suggested on v3 [2].
>
> Since this patch series is mainly for bug fix, I think that these things
> can be done in separate patch series later.
Sure that's fair.
>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Or can we just not let tlb_remove_table() fall back to
>>> tlb_remove_page()? Like the following:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
>>> index a59205863f431..354ffaa4bd120 100644
>>> --- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
>>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
>>> @@ -195,8 +195,6 @@
>>> * various ptep_get_and_clear() functions.
>>> */
>>>
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE
>>> -
>>> struct mmu_table_batch {
>>> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
>>> struct rcu_head rcu;
>>> @@ -219,16 +217,6 @@ static inline void __tlb_remove_table(void *table)
>>>
>>> extern void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table);
>>>
>>> -#else /* !CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_HAVE_TABLE_FREE */
>>> -
>>> -/*
>>> - * Without MMU_GATHER_TABLE_FREE the architecture is assumed to have
>>> page based
>>> - * page directories and we can use the normal page batching to free
>>> them.
>>> - */
>>> -#define tlb_remove_table(tlb, page) tlb_remove_page((tlb), (page))
>>
>> We still need a different implementation of tlb_remove_table() in this
>> case. We could define it inline here:
>>
>> static inline void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table)
>> {
>> struct page *page = table;
>>
>> pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
>> tlb_remove_page(page);
>> }
>
> Right. As I said above, will add this to the updated patch #8.
I think it would be preferable to make it a standalone patch, because
this is a change to generic code that could in principle impact other
arch's too.
- Kevin
