MAINTAINERS: Add entry for MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION
mainline inclusion
from mainline-4.20-rc1
commit: 7526aa54b261087014bdea7e361f900d4741c35e
category: feature
feature: Reduce synchronous TLB invalidation on ARM64
bugzilla: NA
CVE: NA
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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 <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NHanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: NXuefeng Wang <wxf.wang@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: NYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
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