Re: [PATCH v2] sched/core: Don't use dying mm as active_mm of kthreads

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:28:04AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 17:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > The 'sad' part is that x86 already switches to init_mm on idle and we
> > only keep the active_mm around for 'stupid'.
> 
> Wait, where do we do that?

drivers/idle/intel_idle.c:              leave_mm(cpu);
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:  acpi_unlazy_tlb(smp_processor_id());

> > Rik and Andy were working on getting that 'fixed' a while ago, not
> > sure
> > where that went.
> 
> My lazy TLB stuff got merged last year. 

Yes, but we never got around to getting rid of active_mm for x86, right?





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