Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API

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Hi Nadav,

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 05:46:14PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 02:56:14PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >> This patch is ready for solving race problems caused by TLB batch.
> > 
> > s/is ready/is a preparatory patch/
> > 
> >> For that, we will increase/decrease TLB flush pending count of
> >> mm_struct whenever tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu is called.
> >> 
> >> Before making it simple, this patch separates architecture specific
> >> part and rename it to arch_tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu and generic part
> >> just calls it.
> >> 
> >> It shouldn't change any behavior.
> >> 
> >> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > You could alias arch_generic_tlb_finish_mmu as arch_tlb_gather_mmu
> > simiilar to how other arch-generic helpers are done to avoid some
> > #ifdeffery but otherwise
> 
> Minchan,
> 
> Andrew wishes me to send one series that combines both series. What about
> this comment from Mel? It seems you intentionally did not want to alias
> them...

It was not intentional but just forgot it. :(
I really appreciate if you could do for me. :)

> 
> BTW: patch 4 should add “#include <asm/tlb.h>" - I’ll add it. 

Thanks!

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