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Commit f39681ed authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mm: Give each mm TLB flush generation a unique ID



This adds two new variables to mmu_context_t: ctx_id and tlb_gen.
ctx_id uniquely identifies the mm_struct and will never be reused.
For a given mm_struct (and hence ctx_id), tlb_gen is a monotonic
count of the number of times that a TLB flush has been requested.
The pair (ctx_id, tlb_gen) can be used as an identifier for TLB
flush actions and will be used in subsequent patches to reliably
determine whether all needed TLB flushes have occurred on a given
CPU.

This patch is split out for ease of review.  By itself, it has no
real effect other than creating and updating the new variables.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/413a91c24dab3ed0caa5f4e4d017d87b0857f920.1498751203.git.luto@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 4422d80e
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