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In order to reduce the possibility of soft lock-ups, we bound the maximum number of TLBI operations performed by a single call to flush_tlb_range() to an arbitrary constant of 1024. Whilst this does the job of avoiding lock-ups, we can actually be a bit smarter by defining this as PTRS_PER_PTE. Due to the structure of our page tables, using PTRS_PER_PTE means that an outer loop calling flush_tlb_range() for entire table entries will end up performing just a single TLBI operation for each entry. As an example, mremap()ing a 1GB range mapped using 4k pages now requires only 512 TLBI operations when moving the page tables as opposed to 262144 operations (512*512) when using the current threshold of 1024. Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.