This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/mm: Be more consistent wrt PAGE_SHIFT vs PAGE_SIZE in tlb flush code

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-mm-be-more-consistent-wrt-page_shift-vs-page_size-in-tlb-flush-code.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From be4ffc0d787fafb22b89a2f29e71fea3b119205e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 10:00:16 -0700 Subject: x86/mm: Be more consistent wrt PAGE_SHIFT vs PAGE_SIZE in tlb flush code

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

commit be4ffc0d787fafb22b89a2f29e71fea3b119205e upstream.

Nadav pointed out that some code used PAGE_SIZE and other code used PAGE_SHIFT. Use PAGE_SHIFT instead of multiplying or dividing by PAGE_SIZE.

Requested-by: Nadav Amit nadav.amit@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bpetkov@suse.de Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Nadav Amit nadav.amit@gmail.com Cc: Nadav Amit namit@vmware.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Rik van Riel riel@redhat.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin eduval@amazon.com Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin edubezval@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -220,8 +220,7 @@ static void flush_tlb_func_common(const trace_tlb_flush(reason, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); } else { unsigned long addr; - unsigned long nr_pages = - (f->end - f->start) / PAGE_SIZE; + unsigned long nr_pages = (f->end - f->start) >> PAGE_SHIFT; addr = f->start; while (addr < f->end) { __flush_tlb_single(addr); @@ -374,7 +373,7 @@ void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned lon

/* Balance as user space task's flush, a bit conservative */ if (end == TLB_FLUSH_ALL || - (end - start) > tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling * PAGE_SIZE) { + (end - start) > tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling << PAGE_SHIFT) { on_each_cpu(do_flush_tlb_all, NULL, 1); } else { struct flush_tlb_info info;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/x86-mm-refactor-flush_tlb_mm_range-to-merge-local-and-remote-cases.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-pass-flush_tlb_info-to-flush_tlb_others-etc.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-rework-lazy-tlb-to-track-the-actual-loaded-mm.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-kvm-teach-kvm-s-vmx-code-that-cr3-isn-t-a-constant.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-use-new-merged-flush-logic-in-arch_tlbbatch_flush.patch queue-4.9/x86-kvm-vmx-simplify-segment_base.patch queue-4.9/x86-entry-unwind-create-stack-frames-for-saved-interrupt-registers.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-reduce-indentation-in-flush_tlb_func.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-remove-the-up-asm-tlbflush.h-code-always-use-the-formerly-smp-code.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-reimplement-flush_tlb_page-using-flush_tlb_mm_range.patch queue-4.9/mm-x86-mm-make-the-batched-unmap-tlb-flush-api-more-generic.patch queue-4.9/x86-kvm-vmx-defer-tr-reload-after-vm-exit.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-change-the-leave_mm-condition-for-local-tlb-flushes.patch queue-4.9/x86-mm-be-more-consistent-wrt-page_shift-vs-page_size-in-tlb-flush-code.patch