[PATCH v7 6/7] powerpc/mm: update radix__pte_update to not do full mm tlb flush

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Nov 28 17:17:03 AEDT 2016


When we are updating a pte, we just need to flush the tlb mapping
that pte. Right now we do a full mm flush because we don't track page
size. Now that we have page size details in pte use that to do the
optimized flush

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h
index 7f31de4fb454..4e88178cf03b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/radix.h
@@ -145,13 +145,7 @@ static inline unsigned long radix__pte_update(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		 * new value of pte
 		 */
 		new_pte = (old_pte | set) & ~clr;
-
-		/*
-		 * For now let's do heavy pid flush
-		 * radix__flush_tlb_page_psize(mm, addr, mmu_virtual_psize);
-		 */
-		radix__flush_tlb_mm(mm);
-
+		radix__flush_tlb_pte(old_pte, mm, addr);
 		__radix_pte_update(ptep, 0, new_pte);
 	} else
 		old_pte = __radix_pte_update(ptep, clr, set);
-- 
2.10.2



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