Re: PCID review?

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On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a small question: should try_to_unmap_flush() work with these changes?

Ugh, I probably need to fix that up.  Thanks!

>
>> On Feb 7, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.)
>>
>> --Andy
>>
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