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

x86/mm: Use new merged flush logic in arch_tlbbatch_flush()

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-use-new-merged-flush-logic-in-arch_tlbbatch_flush.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 3f79e4c7c9c2f5c30751ea5c8dd9fd1d56b81947 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 10:00:13 -0700 Subject: x86/mm: Use new merged flush logic in arch_tlbbatch_flush()

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

commit 3f79e4c7c9c2f5c30751ea5c8dd9fd1d56b81947 upstream.

Now there's only one copy of the local tlb flush logic for non-kernel pages on SMP kernels.

The only functional change is that arch_tlbbatch_flush() will now leave_mm() on the local CPU if that CPU is in the batch and is in TLBSTATE_LAZY mode.

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 | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -405,12 +405,8 @@ void arch_tlbbatch_flush(struct arch_tlb

int cpu = get_cpu();

- if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &batch->cpumask)) { - count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL); - local_flush_tlb(); - trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); - } - + if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &batch->cpumask)) + flush_tlb_func_local(&info, TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN); if (cpumask_any_but(&batch->cpumask, cpu) < nr_cpu_ids) flush_tlb_others(&batch->cpumask, &info); cpumask_clear(&batch->cpumask);

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