Excerpts from Andrew Morton's message of June 8, 2021 11:48 am:
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:39:56 +1000 Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>
>> > Looks like a functional change. What's happening here?
>>
>> That's kthread_use_mm being clever about the lazy tlb mm. If it happened
>> that the kthread had inher
On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:39:56 +1000 Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Looks like a functional change. What's happening here?
>
> That's kthread_use_mm being clever about the lazy tlb mm. If it happened
> that the kthread had inherited a the lazy tlb mm that happens to be the
> one we want to use here
Excerpts from Andrew Morton's message of June 8, 2021 9:49 am:
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 11:42:13 +1000 Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>
>> Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy mm refcounting.
>> This makes lazy mm references more obvious, and allows explicit
>> refcounting to be removed if it
On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 11:42:13 +1000 Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy mm refcounting.
> This makes lazy mm references more obvious, and allows explicit
> refcounting to be removed if it is not used.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> +++ b/kernel/kthre
Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy mm refcounting.
This makes lazy mm references more obvious, and allows explicit
refcounting to be removed if it is not used.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin
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arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c| 2 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c|
