[PATCH v2 6/9] x86/mm/tlb: Do not make is_lazy dirty for no reason

Nadav Amit
2019-07-03T07:14:34Z

Blindly writing to is_lazy for no reason, when the written value is
identical to the old value, makes the cacheline dirty for no reason.
Avoid making such writes to prevent cache coherency traffic for no
reason.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 9bd24aecbd58..b47a71820f35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -322,7 +322,8 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
__flush_tlb_all();
}
#endif
- this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate_shared.is_lazy, false);
+ if (was_lazy)
+ this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate_shared.is_lazy, false);

/*
* The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier and
--
2.17.1