Re: [PATCH] don't use flush_tlb_all in suspend time

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:31 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > In which case, how's about this?
> > > 
> > > Certainly better, I'd say.
> > > 
> > > > @@ -420,7 +421,14 @@ void zap_low_mappings (void)
> > > >  #else
> > > >  		set_pgd(swapper_pg_dir+i, __pgd(0));
> > > >  #endif
> > > > -	if (cpus_weight(cpu_online_map) == 1)
> > > > +	/*
> > > > +	 * We can be called at suspend/resume time, with local interrupts
> > > > +	 * disabled.  But flush_tlb_all() requires that local interrupts be
> > > > +	 * enabled.
> > > > +	 *
> > > > +	 * Happily, the APs are not yet started, so we can use local_flush_tlb()	 * in that case
> > > > +	 */
> > > > +	if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
> > > >  		local_flush_tlb();
> > > >  	else
> > > >  		flush_tlb_all();
> > > 
> > > But this still scares. It means calling convention is "may enable
> > > interrupts with >1 cpu, may not with == 1 cpu". 
> > Below patch should make things clean. How do you think?
> 
> Nice...
> 
> Could we perhaps reuse swsusp_pg_dir (just make it used for swsusp &
> suspend-to-ram) to save a bit more code? It is in arch/i386/mm/init.c
Sure. But it's under CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND. That part needs cleanup I
think and it's a little strange to me (why should we simply copy
swapper_pg_dir to swsusp_pg_dir, instead do it in zap_low_mappings?).

Thanks,
Shaohua
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