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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-01-29 22:42:59 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-02-09 15:36:11 +0300 |
| commit | d8bced79af1db6734f66b42064cc773cada2ce99 (patch) | |
| tree | 165e9ab752ebf5f44b4d648d5de8b05c6f0e4f68 /arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | |
| parent | d12a72b844a49d4162f24cefdab30bed3f86730e (diff) | |
| download | linux-d8bced79af1db6734f66b42064cc773cada2ce99.tar.xz | |
x86/mm: If INVPCID is available, use it to flush global mappings
On my Skylake laptop, INVPCID function 2 (flush absolutely
everything) takes about 376ns, whereas saving flags, twiddling
CR4.PGE to flush global mappings, and restoring flags takes about
539ns.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed0ef62581c0ea9c99b9bf6df726015e96d44743.1454096309.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h index 8b576832777e..fc9a2fda1404 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -152,6 +152,15 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void) { unsigned long flags; + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) { + /* + * Using INVPCID is considerably faster than a pair of writes + * to CR4 sandwiched inside an IRQ flag save/restore. + */ + invpcid_flush_all(); + return; + } + /* * Read-modify-write to CR4 - protect it from preemption and * from interrupts. (Use the raw variant because this code can |