On 11/01/2017 01:03 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> This ensures that any futuee context switches will do a full flush >> of the TLB so they pick up the changes. > I'm convuced. What was wrong with the old code? I guess I just don't > see what the problem is that is solved by this patch. Instead of flushing *now* with INVPCID, this lets us flush *later* with CR3. It just hijacks the code that you already have that flushes CR3 when loading a new ASID by making all ASIDs look new in the future. We have to load CR3 anyway, so we might as well just do this flush then. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>