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author | Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> | 2011-08-05 13:15:08 (GMT) |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2011-08-05 19:26:44 (GMT) |
commit | dfb09f9b7ab03fd367740e541a5caf830ed56726 (patch) | |
tree | 8bd8fdbbf3fb67f7d0aed73a1e8e1c7034ed2d54 /arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | |
parent | 13f9a3737c903ace57d8aaebe81a3bbaeb0aa0a2 (diff) | |
download | linux-dfb09f9b7ab03fd367740e541a5caf830ed56726.tar.xz |
x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its
shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive
number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the
cores of a compute module.
This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache
lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their
virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation.
This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12]
slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus
forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library
across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases.
It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with
which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86
individually, or both, or be completely disabled.
This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families
and/or vendors unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/mmap.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c index 1dab519..d4c0736 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c @@ -51,21 +51,6 @@ static unsigned int stack_maxrandom_size(void) #define MIN_GAP (128*1024*1024UL + stack_maxrandom_size()) #define MAX_GAP (TASK_SIZE/6*5) -/* - * True on X86_32 or when emulating IA32 on X86_64 - */ -static int mmap_is_ia32(void) -{ -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - return 1; -#endif -#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION - if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)) - return 1; -#endif - return 0; -} - static int mmap_is_legacy(void) { if (current->personality & ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT) |