[RFC PATCH 2/3] mm: mmu_gather track of invalidated TLB ranges explicitly for more precise flushing

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:16 AM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +static inline void __tlb_adjust_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
> +                                     unsigned long address,
> +                                     unsigned int range_size)
> +{
> +       tlb->page_start = min(tlb->page_start, address);
> +       tlb->page_end = max(tlb->page_end, address + range_size);
> +}

Why add this unnecessary complexity for architectures where it doesn't matter?

This is not "generic". This is some crazy powerpc special case. Why
add it to generic code, and why make everybody else take the cost?

                    Linus