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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmu_gather.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmu_gather.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c index 7aa6f18c500b..db7ba4a725d6 100644 --- a/mm/mmu_gather.c +++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c @@ -246,8 +246,16 @@ static void __tlb_remove_table_free(struct mmu_table_batch *batch) * IRQs delays the completion of the TLB flush we can never observe an already * freed page. * - * Architectures that do not have this (PPC) need to delay the freeing by some - * other means, this is that means. + * Not all systems IPI every CPU for this purpose: + * + * - Some architectures have HW support for cross-CPU synchronisation of TLB + * flushes, so there's no IPI at all. + * + * - Paravirt guests can do this TLB flushing in the hypervisor, or coordinate + * with the hypervisor to defer flushing on preempted vCPUs. + * + * Such systems need to delay the freeing by some other means, this is that + * means. * * What we do is batch the freed directory pages (tables) and RCU free them. * We use the sched RCU variant, as that guarantees that IRQ/preempt disabling |