Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 7 authors, 2020-11-25

Re: [PATCH 3/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Remove unused start/end arguments from tlb_finish_mmu()

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2020-11-20 17:21:21
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:36 AM Will Deacon [off-list ref] wrote:
tlb_finish_mmu() takes two confusing and unused 'start'/'end' address
arguments. Remove them.
Ack, but please add the history to it.

Those arguments were used, up until 7a30df49f63a ("mm: mmu_gather:
remove __tlb_reset_range() for force flush").

And the thing is, using a range flush in theory might be better, but
for simplicity it's now doing a "fullmm" one, which is why those
arguments no longer matter.

(And I think we track the range better now too, which may be another
reason they aren't needed)

          Linus

                 Linus

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