[PATCH 4.4 06/78] x86/mm: If INVPCID is available, use it to flush global mappings

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Dec 22 2017 - 03:50:41 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit d8bced79af1db6734f66b42064cc773cada2ce99 upstream.

On my Skylake laptop, INVPCID function 2 (flush absolutely
everything) takes about 376ns, whereas saving flags, twiddling
CR4.PGE to flush global mappings, and restoring flags takes about
539ns.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed0ef62581c0ea9c99b9bf6df726015e96d44743.1454096309.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_gl
{
unsigned long flags;

+ if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) {
+ /*
+ * Using INVPCID is considerably faster than a pair of writes
+ * to CR4 sandwiched inside an IRQ flag save/restore.
+ */
+ invpcid_flush_all();
+ return;
+ }
+
/*
* Read-modify-write to CR4 - protect it from preemption and
* from interrupts. (Use the raw variant because this code can