[PATCH] mm: tlb_finish_mmu forget rss

zap_pte_range has been counting the pages it frees in tlb->freed, then
tlb_finish_mmu has used that to update the mm's rss.  That got stranger when I
added anon_rss, yet updated it by a different route; and stranger when rss and
anon_rss became mm_counters with special access macros.  And it would no
longer be viable if we're relying on page_table_lock to stabilize the
mm_counter, but calling tlb_finish_mmu outside that lock.

Remove the mmu_gather's freed field, let tlb_finish_mmu stick to its own
business, just decrement the rss mm_counter in zap_pte_range (yes, there was
some point to batching the update, and a subsequent patch restores that).  And
forget the anal paranoia of first reading the counter to avoid going negative
- if rss does go negative, just fix that bug.

Remove the mmu_gather's flushes and avoided_flushes from arm and arm26: no use
was being made of them.  But arm26 alone was actually using the freed, in the
way some others use need_flush: give it a need_flush.  arm26 seems to prefer
spaces to tabs here: respect that.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index 5d352a7..cdd4145 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ struct mmu_gather {
 	unsigned int		nr;	/* set to ~0U means fast mode */
 	unsigned int		need_flush;/* Really unmapped some ptes? */
 	unsigned int		fullmm; /* non-zero means full mm flush */
-	unsigned long		freed;
 	struct page *		pages[FREE_PTE_NR];
 };
 
@@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ tlb_gather_mmu(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int full_mm_flush)
 	tlb->nr = num_online_cpus() > 1 ? 0U : ~0U;
 
 	tlb->fullmm = full_mm_flush;
-	tlb->freed = 0;
 
 	return tlb;
 }
@@ -88,13 +86,6 @@ tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 static inline void
 tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 {
-	int freed = tlb->freed;
-	struct mm_struct *mm = tlb->mm;
-	int rss = get_mm_counter(mm, rss);
-
-	if (rss < freed)
-		freed = rss;
-	add_mm_counter(mm, rss, -freed);
 	tlb_flush_mmu(tlb, start, end);
 
 	/* keep the page table cache within bounds */