Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: refactoring TLB gathering API

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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 05:08:15PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> This patch is a preparatory patch for solving race problems caused by
>> TLB batch.  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.
> 
> I absolutely hate this. We should unify this stuff, not diverge it
> further.

Agreed, but I don’t see how this patch makes the situation any worse.

I’ll review your other comments by tomorrow due to some personal
constraints.

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