Re: [RFC 01/20] mm/tlb: fix fullmm semantics

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> On Jan 30, 2021, at 5:02 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 4:16 PM Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> fullmm in mmu_gather is supposed to indicate that the mm is torn-down
>> (e.g., on process exit) and can therefore allow certain optimizations.
>> However, tlb_finish_mmu() sets fullmm, when in fact it want to say that
>> the TLB should be fully flushed.
> 
> Maybe also rename fullmm?

Possible. How about mm_torn_down?

I should have also changed the comment in tlb_finish_mmu().




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