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powerpc/64s/radix: don't need to broadcast IPI for radix pmd collapse…
… flush The IPI broadcast is used to serialize against fast-GUP, but fast-GUP will move to use RCU instead of disabling local interrupts in fast-GUP. Using an IPI is the old-styled way of serializing against fast-GUP although it still works as expected now. And fast-GUP now fixed the potential race with THP collapse by checking whether PMD is changed or not. So IPI broadcast in radix pmd collapse flush is not necessary anymore. But it is still needed for hash TLB. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220907180144.555485-2-shy828301@gmail.com Suggested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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