Re: [PATCH 06/17] arm: mmu_gather rework

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On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:50 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:49:02PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:28 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > > Can you point out where pte_free_tlb() is used with unmap_region()?
> > 
> > unmap_region()
> >   free_pgtables()
> >     free_pgd_range()
> >       free_pud_range()
> >         free_pmd_range()
> >           free_pte_range()
> >             pte_free_tlb()
> 
> Damn it.  Okay, I give up with this.  The TLB shootdown interface is
> total crap.

:-)

There's a reason I'd like to make everybody use asm-generic/tlb.h and
unify all the crazy bits. Once there's common code everybody is forced
to think about this stuff instead of endlessly hack their own
architecture to make it work without consideration for the rest of us.

Furthermore, I don't think its actually too hard to do.. (famous last
words).


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