Re: [PATCH 6.7 073/124] mm: Introduce flush_cache_vmap_early()

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 14. 02. 24, 10:04, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 13. 02. 24, 18:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 6.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit 7a92fc8b4d20680e4c20289a670d8fca2d1f2c1b ]
> > > 
> > > The pcpu setup when using the page allocator sets up a new vmalloc
> > > mapping very early in the boot process, so early that it cannot use the
> > > flush_cache_vmap() function which may depend on structures not yet
> > > initialized (for example in riscv, we currently send an IPI to flush
> > > other cpus TLB).
> > ...
> > > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> > > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> > > @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ static inline void
> > > local_flush_tlb_range_asid(unsigned long start,
> > >           local_flush_tlb_range_threshold_asid(start, size, stride,
> > > asid);
> > >   }
> > > +void local_flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned
> > > long end)
> > > +{
> > > +    local_flush_tlb_range_asid(start, end, PAGE_SIZE,
> > > FLUSH_TLB_NO_ASID);
> > 
> > This apparently requires also:
> > commit ebd4acc0cbeae9efea15993b11b05bd32942f3f0
> > Author: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue Jan 23 14:27:30 2024 +0100
> > 
> >      riscv: Fix wrong size passed to local_flush_tlb_range_asid()
> 
> Ah,
> 
> the very same fix is contained in 074 as:
> commit d9807d60c145836043ffa602328ea1d66dc458b1
> Author: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Jan 17 22:03:33 2024 +0800
> 
>     riscv: mm: execute local TLB flush after populating vmemmap
> 
> 
> So ebd4acc0c above is redundant (nothing is needed to be done here).

Not noise at all, thanks for checking!

greg k-h




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