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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2015-09-05 00:47:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-05 01:54:41 +0200 |
| commit | d950c9477d51f0cefc2ed3cf76e695d46af0d9c1 (patch) | |
| tree | d6ba89db328ec09b2140a84dcdf1bd8ca5cbeaa4 /Documentation/features | |
| parent | mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages (diff) | |
| download | linux-d950c9477d51f0cefc2ed3cf76e695d46af0d9c1.tar.xz linux-d950c9477d51f0cefc2ed3cf76e695d46af0d9c1.zip | |
mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries
If a PTE is unmapped and it's dirty then it was writable recently. Due to
deferred TLB flushing, it's best to assume a writable TLB cache entry
exists. With that assumption, the TLB must be flushed before any IO can
start or the page is freed to avoid lost writes or data corruption. This
patch defers flushing of potentially writable TLBs as long as possible.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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