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| author | Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> | 2013-03-23 13:36:36 (GMT) |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-04-17 04:48:29 (GMT) |
| commit | 00c33275b78637fc5423ce05dd5e886836544eb1 (patch) | |
| tree | 32426a454e77f423984ac59f7f25475161dd3e12 /arch/x86/kernel | |
| parent | a1df5f936a0aea88cbc41555e473c89f1384a64d (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-00c33275b78637fc5423ce05dd5e886836544eb1.tar.xz | |
x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal
commit 511ba86e1d386f671084b5d0e6f110bb30b8eeb2 upstream.
Invoking arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() results in calls to
preempt_enable()/disable() which may have performance impact.
Since lazy MMU is not used on bare metal we can patch away
arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() so that it is never called in such
environment.
[ hpa: the previous patch "Fix vmalloc_fault oops during lazy MMU
updates" may cause a minor performance regression on
bare metal. This patch resolves that performance regression. It is
somewhat unclear to me if this is a good -stable candidate. ]
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364045796-10720-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c index 17fff18..8bfb335 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c @@ -263,6 +263,18 @@ void paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu(void) leave_lazy(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU); } +void paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu(void) +{ + preempt_disable(); + + if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) { + arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); + arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(); + } + + preempt_enable(); +} + void paravirt_start_context_switch(struct task_struct *prev) { BUG_ON(preemptible()); @@ -292,18 +304,6 @@ enum paravirt_lazy_mode paravirt_get_lazy_mode(void) return this_cpu_read(paravirt_lazy_mode); } -void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void) -{ - preempt_disable(); - - if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) { - arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); - arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(); - } - - preempt_enable(); -} - struct pv_info pv_info = { .name = "bare hardware", .paravirt_enabled = 0, @@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops pv_mmu_ops = { .lazy_mode = { .enter = paravirt_nop, .leave = paravirt_nop, + .flush = paravirt_nop, }, .set_fixmap = native_set_fixmap, |