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authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2013-03-23 09:36:36 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-04-16 21:27:27 -0700
commit7ad0908564a3554f9b13258a7927411af62bf3bc (patch)
tree6d0c0ebded4a05e03751638cff10e5a41d1cf86e /arch/x86/include/asm
parente082a177477ef0221076a201236a20c8f51c0090 (diff)
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/include/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h5
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index aa0f9130836..25e97347f61 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -741,7 +741,10 @@ static inline void arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
PVOP_VCALL0(pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.leave);
}
-void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void);
+static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
+{
+ PVOP_VCALL0(pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.flush);
+}
static inline void __set_fixmap(unsigned /* enum fixed_addresses */ idx,
phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t flags)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
index 8e8b9a4987e..faf2c04cdac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct pv_lazy_ops {
/* Set deferred update mode, used for batching operations. */
void (*enter)(void);
void (*leave)(void);
+ void (*flush)(void);
};
struct pv_time_ops {
@@ -680,6 +681,7 @@ void paravirt_end_context_switch(struct task_struct *next);
void paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(void);
void paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu(void);
+void paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu(void);
void _paravirt_nop(void);
u32 _paravirt_ident_32(u32);