[PATCH v4 8/9] x86/mm/tlb: Remove UV special case

[Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>]

SGI UV TLB flushes is outdated and will be replaced with compatible
smp_call_many APIC function in the future. For now, simplify the code by
removing the UV special case.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 25 -------------------------
 1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 1393b3cd3697..3dca146edcf1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -679,31 +679,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_multi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 		trace_tlb_flush(TLB_REMOTE_SEND_IPI,
 				(info->end - info->start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
-	if (is_uv_system()) {
-		/*
-		 * This whole special case is confused.  UV has a "Broadcast
-		 * Assist Unit", which seems to be a fancy way to send IPIs.
-		 * Back when x86 used an explicit TLB flush IPI, UV was
-		 * optimized to use its own mechanism.  These days, x86 uses
-		 * smp_call_function_many(), but UV still uses a manual IPI,
-		 * and that IPI's action is out of date -- it does a manual
-		 * flush instead of calling flush_tlb_func().  This
-		 * means that the percpu tlb_gen variables won't be updated
-		 * and we'll do pointless flushes on future context switches.
-		 *
-		 * Rather than hooking native_flush_tlb_multi() here, I think
-		 * that UV should be updated so that smp_call_function_many(),
-		 * etc, are optimal on UV.
-		 */
-		flush_tlb_func((void *)info);
-
-		cpumask = uv_flush_tlb_others(cpumask, info);
-		if (cpumask)
-			smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func,
-					       (void *)info, 1);
-		return;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * If no page tables were freed, we can skip sending IPIs to
 	 * CPUs in lazy TLB mode. They will flush the CPU themselves
-- 
2.17.1