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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) \



  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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