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Commit 193153f7 authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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powerpc/64s/radix: don't need to broadcast IPI for radix pmd collapse flush

commit bedf0341 upstream.

The IPI broadcast is used to serialize against fast-GUP, but fast-GUP will
move to use RCU instead of disabling local interrupts in fast-GUP.  Using
an IPI is the old-styled way of serializing against fast-GUP although it
still works as expected now.

And fast-GUP now fixed the potential race with THP collapse by checking
whether PMD is changed or not.  So IPI broadcast in radix pmd collapse
flush is not necessary anymore.  But it is still needed for hash TLB.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220907180144.555485-2-shy828301@gmail.com


Suggested-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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