Re: PCID review?

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 10:56:59AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Quite a few people have expressed interest in enabling PCID on (x86)
> Linux.  Here's the code:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=x86/pcid
> 
> The main hold-up is that the code needs to be reviewed very carefully.
> It's quite subtle.  In particular, "x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB
> entries using PCID" ought to be looked at carefully to make sure the
> locking is right, but there are plenty of other ways this this could
> all break.
> 
> Anyone want to take a look or maybe scare up some other reviewers?
> (Kees, you seemed *really* excited about getting this in.)

Cool!

So I can drop 61ec4c556b0d "rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of
->dynticks counter", correct?

							Thanx, Paul

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