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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2016-09-23 20:27:04 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-09-30 10:18:38 +0200
commit7af3e4e129072b33ae95625555d38150f181adc3 (patch)
treef4317ec33e7aec2f8cf20ea1c91127eebe5af17b /mm
parent8b275b4522af2b19072df7aee87fd659e09d29bc (diff)
mm: delete unnecessary and unsafe init_tlb_ubc()
commit b385d21f27d86426472f6ae92a231095f7de2a8d upstream. init_tlb_ubc() looked unnecessary to me: tlb_ubc is statically initialized with zeroes in the init_task, and copied from parent to child while it is quiescent in arch_dup_task_struct(); so I went to delete it. But inserted temporary debug WARN_ONs in place of init_tlb_ubc() to check that it was always empty at that point, and found them firing: because memcg reclaim can recurse into global reclaim (when allocating biosets for swapout in my case), and arrive back at the init_tlb_ubc() in shrink_node_memcg(). Resetting tlb_ubc.flush_required at that point is wrong: if the upper level needs a deferred TLB flush, but the lower level turns out not to, we miss a TLB flush. But fortunately, that's the only part of the protocol that does not nest: with the initialization removed, cpumask collects bits from upper and lower levels, and flushes TLB when needed. Fixes: 72b252aed506 ("mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c19
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0c114e2b01d3..0838e9f02b11 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2159,23 +2159,6 @@ out:
}
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
-static void init_tlb_ubc(void)
-{
- /*
- * This deliberately does not clear the cpumask as it's expensive
- * and unnecessary. If there happens to be data in there then the
- * first SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages will send an unnecessary IPI and
- * then will be cleared.
- */
- current->tlb_ubc.flush_required = false;
-}
-#else
-static inline void init_tlb_ubc(void)
-{
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH */
-
/*
* This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
*/
@@ -2210,8 +2193,6 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
scan_adjusted = (global_reclaim(sc) && !current_is_kswapd() &&
sc->priority == DEF_PRIORITY);
- init_tlb_ubc();
-
blk_start_plug(&plug);
while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {