x86/mm: Delete a big outdated comment about TLB flushing

The comment describes the old explicit IPI-based flush logic, which
is long gone.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55e44997e56086528140c5180f8337dc53fb7ffc.1498751203.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 1cc47838d1e817b3579f7b78c64ee5ead263ffb4..014d07a800535f0320108effe4c9b087c6eb1e88 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -153,42 +153,6 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
        switch_ldt(real_prev, next);
 }
 
-/*
- * The flush IPI assumes that a thread switch happens in this order:
- * [cpu0: the cpu that switches]
- * 1) switch_mm() either 1a) or 1b)
- * 1a) thread switch to a different mm
- * 1a1) set cpu_tlbstate to TLBSTATE_OK
- *     Now the tlb flush NMI handler flush_tlb_func won't call leave_mm
- *     if cpu0 was in lazy tlb mode.
- * 1a2) update cpu active_mm
- *     Now cpu0 accepts tlb flushes for the new mm.
- * 1a3) cpu_set(cpu, new_mm->cpu_vm_mask);
- *     Now the other cpus will send tlb flush ipis.
- * 1a4) change cr3.
- * 1a5) cpu_clear(cpu, old_mm->cpu_vm_mask);
- *     Stop ipi delivery for the old mm. This is not synchronized with
- *     the other cpus, but flush_tlb_func ignore flush ipis for the wrong
- *     mm, and in the worst case we perform a superfluous tlb flush.
- * 1b) thread switch without mm change
- *     cpu active_mm is correct, cpu0 already handles flush ipis.
- * 1b1) set cpu_tlbstate to TLBSTATE_OK
- * 1b2) test_and_set the cpu bit in cpu_vm_mask.
- *     Atomically set the bit [other cpus will start sending flush ipis],
- *     and test the bit.
- * 1b3) if the bit was 0: leave_mm was called, flush the tlb.
- * 2) switch %%esp, ie current
- *
- * The interrupt must handle 2 special cases:
- * - cr3 is changed before %%esp, ie. it cannot use current->{active_,}mm.
- * - the cpu performs speculative tlb reads, i.e. even if the cpu only
- *   runs in kernel space, the cpu could load tlb entries for user space
- *   pages.
- *
- * The good news is that cpu_tlbstate is local to each cpu, no
- * write/read ordering problems.
- */
-
 static void flush_tlb_func_common(const struct flush_tlb_info *f,
                                  bool local, enum tlb_flush_reason reason)
 {