x86/mm: Add comments to clarify which TLB-flush functions are supposed to flush what

Per popular request..

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 3e2227386abe..552d581c8f9f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -228,6 +228,9 @@ static inline void cr4_set_bits_and_update_boot(unsigned long mask)
 
 extern void initialize_tlbstate_and_flush(void);
 
+/*
+ * flush the entire current user mapping
+ */
 static inline void __native_flush_tlb(void)
 {
 	/*
@@ -240,6 +243,9 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb(void)
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
+/*
+ * flush everything
+ */
 static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
 {
 	unsigned long cr4, flags;
@@ -269,17 +275,27 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
 	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
+/*
+ * flush one page in the user mapping
+ */
 static inline void __native_flush_tlb_single(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	asm volatile("invlpg (%0)" ::"r" (addr) : "memory");
 }
 
+/*
+ * flush everything
+ */
 static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void)
 {
-	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
+	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)) {
 		__flush_tlb_global();
-	else
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * !PGE -> !PCID (setup_pcid()), thus every flush is total.
+		 */
 		__flush_tlb();
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Note: if we somehow had PCID but not PGE, then this wouldn't work --
@@ -290,6 +306,9 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void)
 	 */
 }
 
+/*
+ * flush one page in the kernel mapping
+ */
 static inline void __flush_tlb_one(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ONE);