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author | Will Deacon <[email protected]> | 2018-09-03 15:19:37 +0100 |
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committer | Will Deacon <[email protected]> | 2018-09-07 15:19:38 +0100 |
commit | 7526aa54b261087014bdea7e361f900d4741c35e (patch) | |
tree | d70666993953aa4ff6ab6a2f2b417ce9e7191b88 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
parent | 196d9d8bb71deaa2d1c7170c88a2f1a318363047 (diff) |
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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