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    arm64: mm: rewrite ASID allocator and MM context-switching code · 5aec715d
    Will Deacon authored
    Our current switch_mm implementation suffers from a number of problems:
    
      (1) The ASID allocator relies on IPIs to synchronise the CPUs on a
          rollover event
    
      (2) Because of (1), we cannot allocate ASIDs with interrupts disabled
          and therefore make use of a TIF_SWITCH_MM flag to postpone the
          actual switch to finish_arch_post_lock_switch
    
      (3) We run context switch with a reserved (invalid) TTBR0 value, even
          though the ASID and pgd are updated atomically
    
      (4) We take a global spinlock (cpu_asid_lock) during context-switch
    
      (5) We use h/w broadcast TLB operations when they are not required
          (e.g. in flush_context)
    
    This patch addresses these problems by rewriting the ASID algorithm to
    match the bitmap-based arch/arm/ implementation more closely. This in
    turn allows us to remove much of the complications surrounding switch_mm,
    including the ugly thread flag.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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