This originated from s390 which does something similar and would allow s390 to use the generic TLB flushing code. The idea is to flush the mm wide cache and tlb a priory and not bother with multiple flushes if the batching isn't large enough. This can be safely done since there cannot be any concurrency on this mm, its either after the process died (exit) or in the middle of execve where the thread switched to the new mm. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -215,16 +215,22 @@ void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *t tlb->active = &tlb->local; tlb_table_init(tlb); + + if (fullmm) { + flush_cache_mm(mm); + flush_tlb_mm(mm); + } } void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb) { struct mmu_gather_batch *batch; - if (!tlb->need_flush) - return; - tlb->need_flush = 0; - flush_tlb_mm(tlb->mm); + if (!tlb->fullmm && tlb->need_flush) { + tlb->need_flush = 0; + flush_tlb_mm(tlb->mm); + } + tlb_table_flush(tlb); if (tlb_fast_mode(tlb)) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>