Re: TLB and PTE coherency during munmap

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On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:04:44AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:01:39AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On ARM there is a lot of ongoing work on single zImage for multiple
> > SoCs and this implies SMP kernels. There is an SMP_ON_UP feature which
> > does run-time code patching to optimise the UP case in a few places.
> > 
> > Regarding tlb_fast_mode(), the ARM-specific implementation is always 0
> > on ARMv7 even if UP because of speculative TLB loads (the MMU could
> > pretty much act as a separate processor).
> 
> Oh right.. I should really refresh the mmu_gather unification patches so
> all archs are using the generic code.

That would be great! I'll help with testing/review (or if it needs
anything else) from an arm/arm64 perspective.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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