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mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters
authorDave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:20:23 +0000 (14:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:57:08 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
commit9824cf9753ecbe8f5b47aa9b2f218207defea211
tree5baf98172d2f6bedaf83487b04bbeb579be2ff18
parent822518dc56810a0de44cff0f85a227268818749c
mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters

I was investigating some TLB flush scaling issues and realized that we do
not have any good methods for figuring out how many TLB flushes we are
doing.

It would be nice to be able to do these in generic code, but the
arch-independent calls don't explicitly specify whether we actually need
to do remote flushes or not.  In the end, we really need to know if we
actually _did_ global vs.  local invalidations, so that leaves us with few
options other than to muck with the counters from arch-specific code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
include/linux/vm_event_item.h
mm/vmstat.c