Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2011-11-10

Re: [patch 2/5]thp: remove unnecessary tlb flush for mprotect

From: Andrea Arcangeli <hidden>
Date: 2011-11-10 15:23:17
Also in: lkml

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:59:25AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
change_protection() will do TLB flush later, don't need duplicate tlb flush.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <redacted>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/mm/huge_memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/huge_memory.c	2011-10-24 19:24:31.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/huge_memory.c	2011-10-24 19:25:10.000000000 +0800
@@ -1079,7 +1079,6 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struc
 			entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
 			set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
 			spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
-			flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
 			ret = 1;
 		}
 	} else
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted>

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