Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] tlb: Fix (soft-)dirty bit management & clean up API

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jan 28 2021 - 12:18:12 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 3:54 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The objective is to fix the lacklustre TLB invalidation on the clear_refs
> path and then augment the mmu_gather API to make it more difficult to
> abuse.

The series continues to look good to me.

I don't love our "tlb_flush_pending" hackery, but it is what it is,
and at least this series cleans up the proper flushing interfaces.

Linus