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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/20] mm: Optimize fullmm TLB flushing
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:00:23 +0300
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On 06/28/2012 02:30 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 13:19 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> 
>> The cpu can create speculative TLB entries, but only if it runs in the
>> mode that uses the respective mm. We have two mm's active at the same
>> time, the kernel mm (init_mm) and the user mm. While the cpu runs only
>> in kernel mode it is not allowed to create TLBs for the user mm.
>> While running in user mode it is allowed to speculatively create TLBs.
> 
> OK, that's neat.

Note that we can do that for x86 now using the new PCID feature.
Basically you get a tagged TLB, so you can switch between the
kernel-only address space and the kernel+user address space quickly.

It's still going to be slower than what we do now, but it might please
some security people if the kernel can't accidentally access user data.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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