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authorAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>2012-06-28 09:02:24 +0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-06-27 19:29:14 -0700
commiteffee4b9b3b0aa5770bcd98de5f672b05b27703c (patch)
treeb167657ec2ba05797b925a93e7e1b45222ac5ac3 /arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
parent52aec3308db85f4e9f5c8b9f5dc4fbd0138c6fa4 (diff)
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x86/tlb: do flush_tlb_kernel_range by 'invlpg'
This patch do flush_tlb_kernel_range by 'invlpg'. The performance pay and gain was analyzed in previous patch (x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range). In the testing: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/21/10 The pay is mostly covered by long kernel path, but the gain is still quite clear, memory access in user APP can increase 30+% when kernel execute this funtion. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-10-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 621b959e1dbf..b5a27bd77669 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ static inline void reset_lazy_tlbstate(void)
{
}
+static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end)
+{
+ flush_tlb_all();
+}
+
#else /* SMP */
#include <asm/smp.h>
@@ -139,6 +145,7 @@ extern void flush_tlb_current_task(void);
extern void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long);
extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag);
+extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
#define flush_tlb() flush_tlb_current_task()
@@ -168,10 +175,4 @@ static inline void reset_lazy_tlbstate(void)
native_flush_tlb_others(mask, mm, start, end)
#endif
-static inline void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end)
-{
- flush_tlb_all();
-}
-
#endif /* _ASM_X86_TLBFLUSH_H */