This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:01:20 -0700 Subject: x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task() From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b upstream. I was trying to figure out what how flush_tlb_current_task() would possibly work correctly if current->mm != current->active_mm, but I realized I could spare myself the effort: it has no callers except the unused flush_tlb() macro. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e52d64c11690f85e9f1d69d7b48cc2269cd2e94b.1492844372.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 9 --------- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 17 ----------------- 2 files changed, 26 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_one(unsig /* * TLB flushing: * - * - flush_tlb() flushes the current mm struct TLBs * - flush_tlb_all() flushes all processes TLBs * - flush_tlb_mm(mm) flushes the specified mm context TLB's * - flush_tlb_page(vma, vmaddr) flushes one page @@ -236,11 +235,6 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_all(void) __flush_tlb_all(); } -static inline void flush_tlb(void) -{ - __flush_tlb_up(); -} - static inline void local_flush_tlb(void) { __flush_tlb_up(); @@ -302,14 +296,11 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_rang flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end, vma->vm_flags) extern void flush_tlb_all(void); -extern void flush_tlb_current_task(void); extern void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long); extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag); extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end); -#define flush_tlb() flush_tlb_current_task() - void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end); --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -272,23 +272,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struc smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func, &info, 1); } -void flush_tlb_current_task(void) -{ - struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; - - preempt_disable(); - - count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL); - - /* This is an implicit full barrier that synchronizes with switch_mm. */ - local_flush_tlb(); - - trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); - if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids) - flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); - preempt_enable(); -} - /* * See Documentation/x86/tlb.txt for details. We choose 33 * because it is large enough to cover the vast majority (at Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-make-flush_tlb_mm_range-more-predictable.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch