Patch "x86/mm: Reimplement flush_tlb_page() using flush_tlb_mm_range()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

x86/mm: Reimplement flush_tlb_page() using flush_tlb_mm_range()

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:
x86-mm-reimplement-flush_tlb_page-using-flush_tlb_mm_range.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.

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 15:30:01 -0700
Subject: x86/mm: Reimplement flush_tlb_page() using flush_tlb_mm_range()

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit ca6c99c0794875c6d1db6e22f246699691ab7e6b upstream.

flush_tlb_page() was very similar to flush_tlb_mm_range() except that it had a couple of issues:

- It was missing an smp_mb() in the case where
current->active_mm != mm. (This is a longstanding bug reported by Nadav Amit)

- It was missing tracepoints and vm counter updates.

The only reason that I can see for keeping it at as a separate function is that it could avoid a few branches that flush_tlb_mm_range() needs to decide to flush just one page. This hardly seems worthwhile. If we decide we want to get rid of those branches again, a better way would be to introduce an __flush_tlb_mm_range() helper and make both flush_tlb_page() and flush_tlb_mm_range() use it.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |    6 +++++-
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               |   27 ---------------------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

@@ -297,11 +297,15 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_rang
 		flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end, vma->vm_flags)
 
 extern void flush_tlb_all(void);
-extern void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
 extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 				unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag);
 extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 
+static inline void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long a)
+{
+	flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, a, a + PAGE_SIZE, VM_NONE);
+}
+
 void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 				struct mm_struct *mm,
 				unsigned long start, unsigned long end);

@@ -354,33 +354,6 @@ out:
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
-void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start)
-{
-	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-
-	preempt_disable();
-
-	if (current->active_mm == mm) {
-		if (current->mm) {
-			/*
-			 * Implicit full barrier (INVLPG) that synchronizes
-			 * with switch_mm.
-			 */
-			__flush_tlb_one(start);
-		} else {
-			leave_mm(smp_processor_id());
-
-			/* Synchronize with switch_mm. */
-			smp_mb();
-		}
-	}
-
-	if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids)
-		flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), mm, start, start + PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	preempt_enable();
-}
-
 static void do_flush_tlb_all(void *info)
 {
 	count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_REMOTE_FLUSH_RECEIVED);

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

queue-4.9/x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.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/x86-mm-make-flush_tlb_mm_range-more-predictable.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-disable-pcid-on-32-bit-kernels.patch