From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3 of 4] x86: pud_clear: only reload cr3 if necessary
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:48:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c5c4139cb6939f5b0c3.1201564123@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1201564120@localhost>
Rather than unconditionally reloading cr3, only do so if the pud we're
updating is within the active pgd.
This eliminates TLB flushes most of the time. The
performance-critical uses of pud_clear are during execve and exit, but
in those cases cr3 is referring to some other pagetable. The only
other use of pud_clear is during a large (1Gbyte+) munmap, and those
are sufficiently rare that a couple of cr3 reloads won't hurt.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
---
include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -93,17 +93,20 @@ static inline void native_pmd_clear(pmd_
static inline void pud_clear(pud_t *pudp)
{
+ unsigned long pgd;
+
set_pud(pudp, __pud(0));
/*
* Pentium-II erratum A13: in PAE mode we explicitly have to flush
* the TLB via cr3 if the top-level pgd is changed...
*
- * XXX I don't think we need to worry about this here, since
- * when clearing the pud, the calling code needs to flush the
- * tlb anyway. But do it now for safety's sake. - jsgf
+ * Make sure the pud entry we're updating is within the
+ * current pgd to avoid unnecessary TLB flushes.
*/
- write_cr3(read_cr3());
+ pgd = read_cr3();
+ if (__pa(pudp) >= pgd && __pa(pudp) < (pgd + sizeof(pgd_t)*PTRS_PER_PGD))
+ write_cr3(pgd);
}
#define pud_page(pud) \
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 23:48 [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: cleanups from pmd lifetime series Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 23:48 ` [PATCH 1 of 4] x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 23:48 ` [PATCH 2 of 4] x86: revert "defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear()" Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 23:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-01-28 23:48 ` [PATCH 4 of 4] x86: update reference for PAE tlb flushing Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-01 16:26 ` [PATCH 0 of 4] x86: cleanups from pmd lifetime series Ingo Molnar
2008-02-01 16:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-01 17:08 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-01 16:39 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-02-01 16:39 ` [PATCH 3 of 4] x86: pud_clear: only reload cr3 if necessary Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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