Re: [PATCH 1/4] mmu_gather: Remove per arch tlb_{start,end}_vma()

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 09:18:03AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Scattered across the archs are 3 basic forms of tlb_{start,end}_vma().
> Provide two new MMU_GATHER_knobs to enumerate them and remove the per
> arch tlb_{start,end}_vma() implementations.
> 
>  - MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE indicates the arch has flush_cache_range()
>    but does *NOT* want to call it for each VMA.
> 
>  - MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS indicates the arch wants to merge the
>    invalidate across multiple VMAs if possible.
> 
> With these it is possible to capture the three forms:
> 
>   1) empty stubs;
>      select MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE and MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
> 
>   2) start: flush_cache_range(), end: empty;
>      select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
> 
>   3) start: flush_cache_range(), end: flush_tlb_range();
>      default
> 
> Obviously, if the architecture does not have flush_cache_range() then
> it also doesn't need to select MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/Kconfig                     |    7 +++++++
>  arch/csky/include/asm/tlb.h      |   13 -------------
>  arch/loongarch/Kconfig           |    1 +
>  arch/loongarch/include/asm/tlb.h |   10 ----------
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig             |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h   |    2 --
>  arch/s390/Kconfig                |    1 +
>  arch/s390/include/asm/tlb.h      |    3 ---
>  arch/sparc/Kconfig               |    2 ++
>  arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h  |    2 --
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                 |    1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h       |    3 ---
>  include/asm-generic/tlb.h        |   21 +++++++++++++++++++--
>  13 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -438,6 +438,13 @@ config MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
>  
>  config MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
>  	bool
> +	select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
> +
> +config MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE
> +	bool

If this is really a sparc-special and we don't necessarily want it to
proliferate, then maybe:

	default y
	depends on SPARC

would keep it confined?

But I don't mind either way and the important bits of the patch look good:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Will




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