From: tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
bp@alien8.de, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, luto@kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm: Remove debug/x86/tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:24:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-7ac7f2c315ef76437f5119df354d334448534fb5@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fa72431924e81e86c164ff7881bf9240d1f1a6c.1508000261.git.luto@kernel.org>
Commit-ID: 7ac7f2c315ef76437f5119df354d334448534fb5
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/7ac7f2c315ef76437f5119df354d334448534fb5
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 09:59:51 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:25:02 +0200
x86/mm: Remove debug/x86/tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm
Borislav thinks that we don't need this knob in a released kernel.
Get rid of it.
Requested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: b956575bed91 ("x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1fa72431924e81e86c164ff7881bf9240d1f1a6c.1508000261.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 20 ++++++++------
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 58 -----------------------------------------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 0d4a1bb..c4aed0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -82,16 +82,20 @@ static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm)
#define __flush_tlb_single(addr) __native_flush_tlb_single(addr)
#endif
-/*
- * If tlb_use_lazy_mode is true, then we try to avoid switching CR3 to point
- * to init_mm when we switch to a kernel thread (e.g. the idle thread). If
- * it's false, then we immediately switch CR3 when entering a kernel thread.
- */
-DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm);
-
static inline bool tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm(void)
{
- return static_branch_unlikely(&__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm);
+ /*
+ * If we have PCID, then switching to init_mm is reasonably
+ * fast. If we don't have PCID, then switching to init_mm is
+ * quite slow, so we try to defer it in the hopes that we can
+ * avoid it entirely. The latter approach runs the risk of
+ * receiving otherwise unnecessary IPIs.
+ *
+ * This choice is just a heuristic. The tlb code can handle this
+ * function returning true or false regardless of whether we have
+ * PCID.
+ */
+ return !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID);
}
/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 5ee3b59..0f3d0ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
atomic64_t last_mm_ctx_id = ATOMIC64_INIT(1);
-DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm);
static void choose_new_asid(struct mm_struct *next, u64 next_tlb_gen,
u16 *new_asid, bool *need_flush)
@@ -629,60 +628,3 @@ static int __init create_tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling(void)
return 0;
}
late_initcall(create_tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling);
-
-static ssize_t tlblazy_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
- size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
- char buf[2];
-
- buf[0] = static_branch_likely(&__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm)
- ? '1' : '0';
- buf[1] = '\n';
-
- return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, 2);
-}
-
-static ssize_t tlblazy_write_file(struct file *file,
- const char __user *user_buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
- bool val;
-
- if (kstrtobool_from_user(user_buf, count, &val))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (val)
- static_branch_enable(&__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm);
- else
- static_branch_disable(&__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm);
-
- return count;
-}
-
-static const struct file_operations fops_tlblazy = {
- .read = tlblazy_read_file,
- .write = tlblazy_write_file,
- .llseek = default_llseek,
-};
-
-static int __init init_tlblazy(void)
-{
- if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID)) {
- /*
- * If we have PCID, then switching to init_mm is reasonably
- * fast. If we don't have PCID, then switching to init_mm is
- * quite slow, so we default to trying to defer it in the
- * hopes that we can avoid it entirely. The latter approach
- * runs the risk of receiving otherwise unnecessary IPIs.
- *
- * We can't do this in setup_pcid() because static keys
- * haven't been initialized yet, and it would blow up
- * badly.
- */
- static_branch_disable(&__tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm);
- }
-
- debugfs_create_file("tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
- arch_debugfs_dir, NULL, &fops_tlblazy);
- return 0;
-}
-late_initcall(init_tlblazy);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 16:59 [PATCH 0/3] Fixes on top of the TLB fix in x86/urgent Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-14 16:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm/64: Remove the last VM_BUG_ON from the TLB code Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-18 16:23 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm/64: Remove the last VM_BUG_ON() " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-14 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Tidy up "x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode" Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-18 16:23 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-14 16:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/mm: Remove debug/x86/tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-18 16:24 ` tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski [this message]
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