arch, mm: Remove tlb_fast_mode()

Since the introduction of preemptible mmu_gather TLB fast mode has been
broken. TLB fast mode relies on there being absolutely no concurrency;
it frees pages first and invalidates TLBs later.

However now we can get concurrency and stuff goes *bang*.

This patch removes all tlb_fast_mode() code; it was found the better
option vs trying to patch the hole by entangling tlb invalidation with
the scheduler.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/tlb.h
index c3ffe3e..ef3a9de 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/tlb.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/tlb.h
@@ -46,12 +46,6 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/machvec.h>
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-# define tlb_fast_mode(tlb)	((tlb)->nr == ~0U)
-#else
-# define tlb_fast_mode(tlb)	(1)
-#endif
-
 /*
  * If we can't allocate a page to make a big batch of page pointers
  * to work on, then just handle a few from the on-stack structure.
@@ -60,7 +54,7 @@
 
 struct mmu_gather {
 	struct mm_struct	*mm;
-	unsigned int		nr;		/* == ~0U => fast mode */
+	unsigned int		nr;
 	unsigned int		max;
 	unsigned char		fullmm;		/* non-zero means full mm flush */
 	unsigned char		need_flush;	/* really unmapped some PTEs? */
@@ -103,6 +97,7 @@ extern struct ia64_tr_entry *ia64_idtrs[NR_CPUS];
 static inline void
 ia64_tlb_flush_mmu (struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
+	unsigned long i;
 	unsigned int nr;
 
 	if (!tlb->need_flush)
@@ -141,13 +136,11 @@ ia64_tlb_flush_mmu (struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long e
 
 	/* lastly, release the freed pages */
 	nr = tlb->nr;
-	if (!tlb_fast_mode(tlb)) {
-		unsigned long i;
-		tlb->nr = 0;
-		tlb->start_addr = ~0UL;
-		for (i = 0; i < nr; ++i)
-			free_page_and_swap_cache(tlb->pages[i]);
-	}
+
+	tlb->nr = 0;
+	tlb->start_addr = ~0UL;
+	for (i = 0; i < nr; ++i)
+		free_page_and_swap_cache(tlb->pages[i]);
 }
 
 static inline void __tlb_alloc_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
@@ -167,20 +160,7 @@ tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int full_m
 	tlb->mm = mm;
 	tlb->max = ARRAY_SIZE(tlb->local);
 	tlb->pages = tlb->local;
-	/*
-	 * Use fast mode if only 1 CPU is online.
-	 *
-	 * It would be tempting to turn on fast-mode for full_mm_flush as well.  But this
-	 * doesn't work because of speculative accesses and software prefetching: the page
-	 * table of "mm" may (and usually is) the currently active page table and even
-	 * though the kernel won't do any user-space accesses during the TLB shoot down, a
-	 * compiler might use speculation or lfetch.fault on what happens to be a valid
-	 * user-space address.  This in turn could trigger a TLB miss fault (or a VHPT
-	 * walk) and re-insert a TLB entry we just removed.  Slow mode avoids such
-	 * problems.  (We could make fast-mode work by switching the current task to a
-	 * different "mm" during the shootdown.) --davidm 08/02/2002
-	 */
-	tlb->nr = (num_online_cpus() == 1) ? ~0U : 0;
+	tlb->nr = 0;
 	tlb->fullmm = full_mm_flush;
 	tlb->start_addr = ~0UL;
 }
@@ -214,11 +194,6 @@ static inline int __tlb_remove_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *page)
 {
 	tlb->need_flush = 1;
 
-	if (tlb_fast_mode(tlb)) {
-		free_page_and_swap_cache(page);
-		return 1; /* avoid calling tlb_flush_mmu */
-	}
-
 	if (!tlb->nr && tlb->pages == tlb->local)
 		__tlb_alloc_page(tlb);