linux/arch/x86
Dave Hansen c922228efe x86, mpx: Fix potential performance issue on unmaps
The 3.19 merge window saw some TLB modifications merged which caused a
performance regression. They were fixed in commit 045bbb9fa.

Once that fix was applied, I also noticed that there was a small
but intermittent regression still present.  It was not present
consistently enough to bisect reliably, but I'm fairly confident
that it came from (my own) MPX patches.  The source was reading
a relatively unused field in the mm_struct via arch_unmap.

I also noted that this code was in the main instruction flow of
do_munmap() and probably had more icache impact than we want.

This patch does two things:
1. Adds a static (via Kconfig) and dynamic (via cpuid) check
   for MPX with cpu_feature_enabled().  This keeps us from
   reading that cacheline in the mm and trades it for a check
   of the global CPUID variables at least on CPUs without MPX.
2. Adds an unlikely() to ensure that the MPX call ends up out
   of the main instruction flow in do_munmap().  I've added
   a detailed comment about why this was done and why we want
   it even on systems where MPX is present.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: luto@amacapital.net
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150108223021.AEEAB987@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-01-22 21:11:06 +01:00
..
boot x86, boot: Skip relocs when load address unchanged 2015-01-20 12:37:23 +01:00
configs x86/kconfig/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_FHANDLE=y 2014-12-08 12:04:17 +01:00
crypto crypto: sha-mb - Add avx2_supported check. 2015-01-05 21:35:02 +11:00
ia32 x86: hook up execveat system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
include x86, mpx: Fix potential performance issue on unmaps 2015-01-22 21:11:06 +01:00
kernel x86, hyperv: Mark the Hyper-V clocksource as being continuous 2015-01-20 14:36:25 +01:00
kvm kvm: x86: drop severity of "generation wraparound" message 2014-12-27 21:52:28 +01:00
lguest x86: Avoid building unused IRQ entry stubs 2014-12-16 14:08:14 +01:00
lib x86: Fix off-by-one in instruction decoder 2015-01-09 11:12:26 +01:00
math-emu
mm x86, mpx: Explicitly disable 32-bit MPX support on 64-bit kernels 2015-01-22 21:11:06 +01:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-10 15:48:20 -05:00
oprofile percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t 2014-08-28 08:58:57 -04:00
pci x86/xen: Override ACPI IRQ management callback __acpi_unregister_gsi 2015-01-20 11:44:41 +01:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-19 14:02:02 -08:00
power nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h> 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
purgatory Merge branches 'x86-build-for-linus', 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' and 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 12:35:46 -08:00
realmode
syscalls x86: hook up execveat system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 12:10:24 -08:00
um x86, um: actually mark system call tables readonly 2015-01-04 14:21:25 +01:00
vdso x86_64, vdso: Fix the vdso address randomization algorithm 2014-12-20 16:56:57 -08:00
video
xen xen: bug fixes for 3.19-rc4 2015-01-14 08:07:42 +13:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/purgatory/ make generated files to gitignore 2014-10-09 09:29:46 +02:00
Kbuild kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-19 14:02:02 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 18:17:33 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um