Re: [patch 001/163] mm/memory.c: avoid access flag update TLB flush for retried page fault

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 11:17 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:17 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: mm/memory.c: avoid access flag update TLB flush for retried page fault
>
> This is not the safe version that just avoids the extra TLB flush.
>
> This is - once again - the thing that skips the whole mkdirty and page
> table update too.
>
> I'm not taking it this time _either_.

I'm supposed Catalin would submit his proposal (flush local TLB for
spurious TLB fault on ARM) for this specific regression per the
discussion, right?

And, the more general spurious TLB fault problem sounds not that
urgent since it should be very rare.

>
> Andrew, please flush this garbage from your system.
>
>                  Linus
>




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