Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: mremap: use flush_pmd_tlb_range() in move_normal_pmd()

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 07:05:43 EST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 03:48:27PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> Archs may need to do special things when flushing thp tlb,
> so use the more applicable flush_pud_tlb_range() instead of
> flush_tlb_range().
>
> Fixes: 2c91bd4a4e2e ("mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions")
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/mremap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
> index 11e06e4ab33b..1883205fa22b 100644
> --- a/mm/mremap.c
> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static bool move_normal_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
> VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
>
> pmd_populate(mm, new_pmd, pmd_pgtable(pmd));
> - flush_tlb_range(vma, old_addr, old_addr + PMD_SIZE);
> + flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, old_addr, old_addr + PMD_SIZE);

I don't think that's correct for arm64. The assumption in the
flush_p*d_tlb_range() was that they are called only for block mappings
at that p*d level (and we use FEAT_TTL on arm64 indicating that the leaf
level is level 2 for pmd, 1 for pud). IIUC move_normal_pmd() is only
called for table pmds which would have a leaf level of 3 (the pte).

Same for the next patch doing the equivalent for the pud.

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Catalin