linux/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr
Andy Lutomirski 1e02ce4ccc x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Cc: "hillf.zj" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-04 12:10:42 +01:00
..
Makefile x86, mtrr: Remove unused mtrr/state.c 2010-02-04 10:01:38 +01:00
amd.c x86, mtrr: Constify struct mtrr_ops 2010-02-01 11:20:43 -08:00
centaur.c x86, mtrr: Constify struct mtrr_ops 2010-02-01 11:20:43 -08:00
cleanup.c x86, mtrr: Fix original mtrr range get for mtrr_cleanup 2013-06-18 11:32:02 -05:00
cyrix.c x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 2015-02-04 12:10:42 +01:00
generic.c x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 2015-02-04 12:10:42 +01:00
if.c x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls 2012-03-01 12:48:52 -08:00
main.c x86: Add more disabled features 2014-09-11 14:30:17 -07:00
mtrr.h x86, mtrr: Constify struct mtrr_ops 2010-02-01 11:20:43 -08:00