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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:39:35 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: 8a4b30de2f7f9df3 X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT From: Lance Yang To: ljs@kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, liam@infradead.org, nico.pache@linux.dev, ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, usama.arif@linux.dev, kas@kernel.org, guoren@kernel.org, bcain@kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, dinguyen@kernel.org, schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com, jonas@southpole.se, stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi, shorne@gmail.com, dalias@libc.org, glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de, pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com, aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, alex@ghiti.fr, linux@armlinux.org.uk, vgupta@kernel.org, monstr@monstr.eu, chris@zankel.net, jcmvbkbc@gmail.com, will@kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, npiggin@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org, davem@davemloft.net, andreas@gaisler.com, richard.henderson@linaro.org, mattst88@gmail.com, linmag7@gmail.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, chenhuacai@kernel.org, kernel@xen0n.name, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, deller@gmx.de, maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, chleroy@kernel.org, hca@linux.ibm.com, gor@linux.ibm.com, agordeev@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@linux.ibm.com, svens@linux.ibm.com, richard@nod.at, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, arnd@arndb.de, vbabka@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, jgg@ziepe.ca, jhubbard@nvidia.com, peterx@redhat.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, corbet@lwn.net, rdunlap@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-openrisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, hughd@google.com, qi.zheng@linux.dev, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/12] mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE for most 2-level architectures Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:39:26 +0800 Message-ID: <20260923043926.76397-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.49.0 In-Reply-To: <20260922-rcu-pagetable-freeing-v4-2-fe1ad1f1e303@kernel.org> References: <20260922-rcu-pagetable-freeing-v4-2-fe1ad1f1e303@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 04:35:33PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: >Commit e3ecf7c7d082 ("mm: pgtable: convert some architectures to use >tlb_remove_ptdesc()") updated a number of architectures from using >pagetable_dtor() + tlb_remove_page_ptdesc() to using tlb_remove_ptdesc() in >__pte_free_tlb(). > >This is meaningful as tlb_remove_ptdesc() allows for RCU page table >freeing if CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE is specified. > >The csky, hexagon, nios2, openrisc, sh (except X2) and m68k-sun3 >architectures all have 2 levels of page tables, so the only page tables >ever freed by mmu_gather are PTEs, so this update suffices to ensure that >every page table freed by the mmu_gather mechanism is freed under RCU. > >Therefore, update all of these architectures to select >CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE. > >This forms part of an overall effort to switch every architecture to this >mode. > >Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) >Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) >--- Nothing jumped out at me, Reviewed-by: Lance Yang