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mm: fix the TLB range flushed when __tlb_remove_page() runs out of slots

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zap_pte_range loops from @addr to @end.  In the middle, if it runs out of
batching slots, TLB entries needs to be flushed for @start to @interim,
NOT @interim to @end.

Since ARC port doesn't use page free batching I can't test it myself but
this seems like the right thing to do.

Observed this when working on a fix for the issue at thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arch/msg21736.html

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vineet Gupta 2013-07-03 15:03:31 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit e6c495a96c
1 changed files with 6 additions and 3 deletions
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mm/memory.c
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@ -1101,6 +1101,7 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t *start_pte;
pte_t *pte;
unsigned long range_start = addr;
again:
init_rss_vec(rss);
@ -1206,12 +1207,14 @@ again:
force_flush = 0;
#ifdef HAVE_GENERIC_MMU_GATHER
tlb->start = addr;
tlb->end = end;
tlb->start = range_start;
tlb->end = addr;
#endif
tlb_flush_mmu(tlb);
if (addr != end)
if (addr != end) {
range_start = addr;
goto again;
}
}
return addr;