mm: mmu_gather: allow more than one batch of delayed rmaps
Commit 5df397de ("mm: delay page_remove_rmap() until after the TLB has been flushed") limited the page batching for the mmu gather operation when a dirty shared page needed to delay rmap removal until after the TLB had been flushed. It did so because it needs to walk that array of pages while still holding the page table lock, and our mmu_gather infrastructure allows for batching quite a lot of pages. We may have thousands on pages queued up for freeing, and we wanted to walk only the last batch if we then added a dirty page to the queue. However, when I limited it to one batch, I didn't think of the degenerate case of the special first batch that is embedded on-stack in the mmu_gather structure (called "local") and that only has eight entries. So with the right pattern, that "limit delayed rmap to just one batch" will trigger over and over in that first small batch, and we'll waste a lot of time flushing TLB's every eight pages. And thos...
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