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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH FIXED] x86: use flush_tlb_others to implement flu

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH FIXED] x86: use flush_tlb_others to implement flush_tlb_all
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:52:55 +0100
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On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:33 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> -static void do_flush_tlb_all(void *info)
> +void flush_tlb_all(void)
>  {
> -     unsigned long cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +     /* flush_tlb_others expects preempt to be disabled */
> +     get_cpu();
> +
> +     flush_tlb_others(cpu_online_mask, NULL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
>  
>       __flush_tlb_all();
>       if (percpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) == TLBSTATE_LAZY)
> -             leave_mm(cpu);
> -}
> +             leave_mm(smp_processor_id());

get_cpu() returns smp_processor_id() so wouldn't this be more normally
written as:
        /* flush_tlb_others expects preempt to be disabled */
        unsigned long cpu = get_cpu();
        [....]
        if ([....] == TLBSTATE_LAZY)
                leave_mm(cpu)
        put_cpu();

Ian.


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