Revision 706a1ea65e6faaf853427a0e931f59d604dd45e3 authored by Linus Torvalds on 23 August 2018, 21:55:01 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 August 2018, 21:55:01 UTC
Merge fixes for missing TLB shootdowns.

This fixes a couple of cases that involved us possibly freeing page
table structures before the required TLB shootdown had been done.

There are a few cleanup patches to make the code easier to follow, and
to avoid some of the more problematic cases entirely when not necessary.

To make this easier for backports, it undoes the recent lazy TLB
patches, because the cleanups and fixes are more important, and Rik is
ok with re-doing them later when things have calmed down.

The missing TLB flush was only delayed, and the wrong ordering only
happened under memory pressure (and in theory under a couple of other
fairly theoretical situations), so this may have been all very unlikely
to have hit people in practice.

But getting the TLB shootdown wrong is _so_ hard to debug and see that I
consider this a crticial fix.

Many thanks to Jann Horn for having debugged this.

* tlb-fixes:
  x86/mm: Only use tlb_remove_table() for paravirt
  mm: mmu_notifier fix for tlb_end_vma
  mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE
  mm/tlb: Remove tlb_remove_table() non-concurrent condition
  mm: move tlb_table_flush to tlb_flush_mmu_free
  x86/mm/tlb: Revert the recent lazy TLB patches
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IRQ.txt
===============
What is an IRQ?
===============

An IRQ is an interrupt request from a device.
Currently they can come in over a pin, or over a packet.
Several devices may be connected to the same pin thus
sharing an IRQ.

An IRQ number is a kernel identifier used to talk about a hardware
interrupt source.  Typically this is an index into the global irq_desc
array, but except for what linux/interrupt.h implements the details
are architecture specific.

An IRQ number is an enumeration of the possible interrupt sources on a
machine.  Typically what is enumerated is the number of input pins on
all of the interrupt controller in the system.  In the case of ISA
what is enumerated are the 16 input pins on the two i8259 interrupt
controllers.

Architectures can assign additional meaning to the IRQ numbers, and
are encouraged to in the case  where there is any manual configuration
of the hardware involved.  The ISA IRQs are a classic example of
assigning this kind of additional meaning.
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