Commit d970a521 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] x86_64: Fix some comments in tlbflush.h



Were either outdated or misleading.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent ef4d7cbe
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@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ extern unsigned long pgkern_mask;
 *  - flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end) flushes a range of kernel pages
 *  - flush_tlb_pgtables(mm, start, end) flushes a range of page tables
 *
 * ..but the x86_64 has somewhat limited tlb flushing capabilities,
 * and page-granular flushes are available only on i486 and up.
 * x86-64 can only flush individual pages or full VMs. For a range flush
 * we always do the full VM. Might be worth trying if for a small
 * range a few INVLPGs in a row are a win.
 */

#ifndef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -115,7 +116,9 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct * vma, unsigned long st
static inline void flush_tlb_pgtables(struct mm_struct *mm,
				      unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	/* x86_64 does not keep any page table caches in TLB */
	/* x86_64 does not keep any page table caches in a software TLB.
	   The CPUs do in their hardware TLBs, but they are handled
	   by the normal TLB flushing algorithms. */
}

#endif /* _X8664_TLBFLUSH_H */