tlb: mmu_gather: Introduce tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm()

Passing the range '0, -1' to tlb_gather_mmu() sets the 'fullmm' flag, which indicates that the mm_struct being operated on is going away. In this case, some architectures (such as arm64) can elide TLB invalidation by ensuring that the TLB tag (ASID) associated with this mm is not immediately reclaimed. Although this behaviour is documented in asm-generic/tlb.h, it's subtle and easily missed. Introduce tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm() to make it clearer that this is for the entire mm and WARN() if tlb_gather_mmu() is called with the 'fullmm' address range. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
josf · Jan 29, 2021 · d8b4505 · d8b4505
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diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@
  *
  * The mmu_gather API consists of:
  *
- *  - tlb_gather_mmu() / tlb_finish_mmu(); start and finish a mmu_gather
+ *  - tlb_gather_mmu() / tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm() / tlb_finish_mmu()
+ *
+ *    start and finish a mmu_gather
  *
  *    Finish in particular will issue a (final) TLB invalidate and free
  *    all (remaining) queued pages.
@@ -91,7 +93,7 @@
  *
  *  - mmu_gather::fullmm
  *
- *    A flag set by tlb_gather_mmu() to indicate we're going to free
+ *    A flag set by tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm() to indicate we're going to free
  *    the entire mm; this allows a number of optimizations.
  *
  *    - We can ignore tlb_{start,end}_vma(); because we don't

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -590,6 +590,7 @@ static inline cpumask_t *mm_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm)
 struct mmu_gather;
 extern void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
 				unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+extern void tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb);
 
 static inline void init_tlb_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -3214,7 +3214,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
 
 	lru_add_drain();
 	flush_cache_mm(mm);
-	tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0, -1);
+	tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm(&tlb, mm);
 	/* update_hiwater_rss(mm) here? but nobody should be looking */
 	/* Use -1 here to ensure all VMAs in the mm are unmapped */
 	unmap_vmas(&tlb, vma, 0, -1);

diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
  * respectively when @mm is without users and we're going to destroy
  * the full address space (exit/execve).
  */
-void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
-			unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+static void __tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
+			     unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
 	tlb->mm = mm;
 
@@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	inc_tlb_flush_pending(tlb->mm);
 }
 
+void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm,
+		    unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	WARN_ON(!(start | (end + 1))); /* Use _fullmm() instead */
+	__tlb_gather_mmu(tlb, mm, start, end);
+}
+
+void tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	__tlb_gather_mmu(tlb, mm, 0, -1);
+}
+
 /**
  * tlb_finish_mmu - finish an mmu_gather structure
  * @tlb: the mmu_gather structure to finish