Re: [PATCH 0/2] riscv: Enable percpu page first chunk allocator

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 11:08:20AM +0100, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> Hi Tejun,
> 
> On 10/11/2023 15:07, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > While working with pcpu variables, I noticed that riscv did not support
> > first chunk allocation in the vmalloc area which may be needed as a fallback
> > in case of a sparse NUMA configuration.
> > 
> > patch 1 starts by introducing a new function flush_cache_vmap_early() which
> > is needed since a new vmalloc mapping is established and directly accessed:
> > on riscv, this would likely fail in case of a reordered access or if the
> > uarch caches invalid entries in TLB.
> > 
> > patch 2 simply enables the page percpu first chunk allocator in riscv.
> > 
> > Alexandre Ghiti (2):
> >    mm: Introduce flush_cache_vmap_early() and its riscv implementation
> >    riscv: Enable pcpu page first chunk allocator
> > 
> >   arch/riscv/Kconfig                  | 2 ++
> >   arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 3 ++-
> >   arch/riscv/include/asm/tlbflush.h   | 2 ++
> >   arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c          | 8 ++++++++
> >   arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c            | 5 +++++
> >   include/asm-generic/cacheflush.h    | 6 ++++++
> >   mm/percpu.c                         | 8 +-------
> >   7 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Any feedback regarding this?

On cursory look, it looked fine to me but Dennis is maintaining the percpu
tree now. Dennis?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun




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