[patch] x86, tlb: switch cr3 in leave_mm() only when needed

From: Suresh Siddha
Date: Thu Mar 22 2012 - 19:32:33 EST


From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: x86, tlb: switch cr3 in leave_mm() only when needed

Currently leave_mm() unconditionally switches the cr3 to swapper_pg_dir.
But there is no need to change the cr3, if we already left that mm.

intel_idle() for example calls leave_mm() on every deep c-state entry where
the CPU flushes the TLB for us. Similarly flush_tlb_all() was also calling
leave_mm() whenever the TLB is in LAZY state. Both these paths will be
improved with this change.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index d6c0418..ad695cc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(int, tlb_vector_offset);
*/
void leave_mm(int cpu)
{
+ struct mm_struct *active_mm = percpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm);
if (percpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state) == TLBSTATE_OK)
BUG();
- cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu,
- mm_cpumask(percpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm)));
- load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
+ if (cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(active_mm)))
+ load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);



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