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Will Deacon authored
We recently had to debug a TLB invalidation problem on the munmap() path, which was made more difficult than necessary because: (a) The MMU gather code had changed without people realising (b) Many people subtly misunderstood the operation of the MMU gather code and its interactions with RCU and arch-specific TLB invalidation (c) Untangling the intended behaviour involved educated guesswork and plenty of discussion Hopefully, we can avoid getting into this mess again by designating a cross-arch group of people to look after this code. It is not intended that they will have a separate tree, but they at least provide a point of contact for anybody working in this area and can co-ordinate any proposed future changes to the internal API. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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