From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030178Ab3BAOEx (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:04:53 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:32946 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755961Ab3BAOEv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:04:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:02:18 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Minchan Kim Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Matt Sealey , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Magenheimer , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Nitin Gupta , Seth Jennings Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Fix TLB coherency and build problem Message-ID: <20130201140218.GN23505@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1359334808-19794-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1359334808-19794-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:00:08AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > @@ -663,7 +661,7 @@ static inline void __zs_unmap_object(struct mapping_area *area, > > flush_cache_vunmap(addr, end); > unmap_kernel_range_noflush(addr, PAGE_SIZE * 2); > - local_flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, end); > + flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, end); void unmap_kernel_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size) { vunmap_page_range(addr, addr + size); } void unmap_kernel_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size) { unsigned long end = addr + size; flush_cache_vunmap(addr, end); vunmap_page_range(addr, end); flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, end); } So, given the above, what would be different between: unsigned long end = addr + (PAGE_SIZE * 2); flush_cache_vunmap(addr, end); unmap_kernel_range_noflush(addr, PAGE_SIZE * 2); flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, end); (which is what it becomes after your change) and unmap_kernel_range(addr, PAGE_SIZE * 2); ?