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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mm, x86/mm: Make the batched unmap TLB flush API more generic

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mm-x86-mm-make-the-batched-unmap-tlb-flush-api-more-generic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From e73ad5ff2f76da25390e9607cb549691639330c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 15:30:03 -0700
Subject: mm, x86/mm: Make the batched unmap TLB flush API more generic

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit e73ad5ff2f76da25390e9607cb549691639330c3 upstream.

try_to_unmap_flush() used to open-code a rather x86-centric flush
sequence: local_flush_tlb() + flush_tlb_others(). Rearrange the code so that the arch (only x86 for now) provides arch_tlbbatch_add_mm() and arch_tlbbatch_flush() and the core code calls those functions instead.

I'll want this for x86 because, to enable address space ids, I can't support the flush_tlb_others() mode used by exising try_to_unmap_flush() implementation with good performance. I can support the new API fairly easily, though.

I imagine that other architectures may be in a similar position. Architectures with strong remote flush primitives (arm64?) may have even worse performance problems with flush_tlb_others() the way that try_to_unmap_flush() uses it.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbbatch.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |    8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/sched.h           |   15 +++++++++++----
 mm/rmap.c                       |   16 ++--------------
 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbbatch.h
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbbatch.h new file +16 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#ifndef _ARCH_X86_TLBBATCH_H
+#define _ARCH_X86_TLBBATCH_H
+
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch {
+	/*
+	 * Each bit set is a CPU that potentially has a TLB entry for one of
+	 * the PFNs being flushed..
+	 */
+	struct cpumask cpumask;
+};
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _ARCH_X86_TLBBATCH_H */
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +8 -0
@@ -327,6 +327,14 @@ static inline void reset_lazy_tlbstate(v
 	this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, &init_mm);
 }
 
+static inline void arch_tlbbatch_add_mm(struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch,
+					struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	cpumask_or(&batch->cpumask, &batch->cpumask, mm_cpumask(mm));
+}
+
+extern void arch_tlbbatch_flush(struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch);
+
 #endif	/* SMP */
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +17 -0
@@ -410,6 +410,23 @@ void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned lon
 	}
 }
 
+void arch_tlbbatch_flush(struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch)
+{
+	int cpu = get_cpu();
+
+	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &batch->cpumask)) {
+		count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL);
+		local_flush_tlb();
+		trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+	}
+
+	if (cpumask_any_but(&batch->cpumask, cpu) < nr_cpu_ids)
+		flush_tlb_others(&batch->cpumask, NULL, 0, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
+	cpumask_clear(&batch->cpumask);
+
+	put_cpu();
+}
+
 static ssize_t tlbflush_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
 			     size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
include/linux/sched.h +11 -4
@@ -1463,15 +1463,22 @@ enum perf_event_task_context {
 	perf_nr_task_contexts,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
+#include <asm/tlbbatch.h>
+#endif
+
 /* Track pages that require TLB flushes */
 struct tlbflush_unmap_batch {
 	/*
-	 * Each bit set is a CPU that potentially has a TLB entry for one of
-	 * the PFNs being flushed. See set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending().
+	 * The arch code makes the following promise: generic code can modify a
+	 * PTE, then call arch_tlbbatch_add_mm() (which internally provides all
+	 * needed barriers), then call arch_tlbbatch_flush(), and the entries
+	 * will be flushed on all CPUs by the time that arch_tlbbatch_flush()
+	 * returns.
 	 */
-	struct cpumask cpumask;
+	struct arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch arch;
 
-	/* True if any bit in cpumask is set */
+	/* True if a flush is needed. */
 	bool flush_required;
 
 	/*
mm/rmap.c +2 -14
@@ -578,25 +578,13 @@ void page_unlock_anon_vma_read(struct an
 void try_to_unmap_flush(void)
 {
 	struct tlbflush_unmap_batch *tlb_ubc = &current->tlb_ubc;
-	int cpu;
 
 	if (!tlb_ubc->flush_required)
 		return;
 
-	cpu = get_cpu();
-
-	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &tlb_ubc->cpumask)) {
-		count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL);
-		local_flush_tlb();
-		trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	}
-
-	if (cpumask_any_but(&tlb_ubc->cpumask, cpu) < nr_cpu_ids)
-		flush_tlb_others(&tlb_ubc->cpumask, NULL, 0, TLB_FLUSH_ALL);
-	cpumask_clear(&tlb_ubc->cpumask);
+	arch_tlbbatch_flush(&tlb_ubc->arch);
 	tlb_ubc->flush_required = false;
 	tlb_ubc->writable = false;
-	put_cpu();
 }
 
 /* Flush iff there are potentially writable TLB entries that can race with IO */
@@ -613,7 +601,7 @@ static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(st
 {
 	struct tlbflush_unmap_batch *tlb_ubc = &current->tlb_ubc;
 
-	cpumask_or(&tlb_ubc->cpumask, &tlb_ubc->cpumask, mm_cpumask(mm));
+	arch_tlbbatch_add_mm(&tlb_ubc->arch, mm);
 	tlb_ubc->flush_required = true;
 
 	/*

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/x86-mm-refactor-flush_tlb_mm_range-to-merge-local-and-remote-cases.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-pass-flush_tlb_info-to-flush_tlb_others-etc.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-rework-lazy-tlb-to-track-the-actual-loaded-mm.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-kvm-teach-kvm-s-vmx-code-that-cr3-isn-t-a-constant.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-use-new-merged-flush-logic-in-arch_tlbbatch_flush.patch queue-4.9/x86-kvm-vmx-simplify-segment_base.patch queue-4.9/x86-entry-unwind-create-stack-frames-for-saved-interrupt-registers.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-reduce-indentation-in-flush_tlb_func.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-remove-the-up-asm-tlbflush.h-code-always-use-the-formerly-smp-code.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-reimplement-flush_tlb_page-using-flush_tlb_mm_range.patch queue-4.9/mm-x86-mm-make-the-batched-unmap-tlb-flush-api-more-generic.patch queue-4.9/x86-kvm-vmx-defer-tr-reload-after-vm-exit.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-change-the-leave_mm-condition-for-local-tlb-flushes.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-be-more-consistent-wrt-page_shift-vs-page_size-in-tlb-flush-code.patch