On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 17:44 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 11:28:04AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 17:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > > The 'sad' part is that x86 already switches to init_mm on idle
> > > and we
> > > only keep the active_mm around for 'stupid'.
> > 
> > Wait, where do we do that?
> 
> drivers/idle/intel_idle.c:              leave_mm(cpu);
> drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:  acpi_unlazy_tlb(smp_processor_id());

This is only done for deeper c-states, isn't it?

> > > Rik and Andy were working on getting that 'fixed' a while ago,
> > > not
> > > sure
> > > where that went.
> > 
> > My lazy TLB stuff got merged last year. 
> 
> Yes, but we never got around to getting rid of active_mm for x86,
> right?

True, we still use active_mm. Getting rid of the
active_mm refcounting alltogether did not look
entirely worthwhile the hassle.

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