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

x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()

to the 4.4-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-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:01:20 -0700 Subject: x86/mm: Remove flush_tlb() and flush_tlb_current_task()

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

commit 29961b59a51f8c6838a26a45e871a7ed6771809b upstream.

I was trying to figure out what how flush_tlb_current_task() would possibly work correctly if current->mm != current->active_mm, but I realized I could spare myself the effort: it has no callers except the unused flush_tlb() macro.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e52d64c11690f85e9f1d69d7b48cc2269cd2e94b.1492844372... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 9 --------- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 17 ----------------- 2 files changed, 26 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_one(unsig /* * TLB flushing: * - * - flush_tlb() flushes the current mm struct TLBs * - flush_tlb_all() flushes all processes TLBs * - flush_tlb_mm(mm) flushes the specified mm context TLB's * - flush_tlb_page(vma, vmaddr) flushes one page @@ -236,11 +235,6 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_all(void) __flush_tlb_all(); }

-static inline void flush_tlb(void) -{ - __flush_tlb_up(); -} - static inline void local_flush_tlb(void) { __flush_tlb_up(); @@ -302,14 +296,11 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_rang flush_tlb_mm_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end, vma->vm_flags)

extern void flush_tlb_all(void); -extern void flush_tlb_current_task(void); extern void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long); extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag); extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);

-#define flush_tlb() flush_tlb_current_task() - void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end); --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -272,23 +272,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struc smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func, &info, 1); }

-void flush_tlb_current_task(void) -{ - struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; - - preempt_disable(); - - count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ALL); - - /* This is an implicit full barrier that synchronizes with switch_mm. */ - local_flush_tlb(); - - trace_tlb_flush(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); - if (cpumask_any_but(mm_cpumask(mm), smp_processor_id()) < nr_cpu_ids) - flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask(mm), mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); - preempt_enable(); -} - /* * See Documentation/x86/tlb.txt for details. We choose 33 * because it is large enough to cover the vast majority (at

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

queue-4.4/x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-make-flush_tlb_mm_range-more-predictable.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch