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Commit 6cff64b8 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mm: Use INVPCID for __native_flush_tlb_single()



This uses INVPCID to shoot down individual lines of the user mapping
instead of marking the entire user map as invalid. This
could/might/possibly be faster.

This for sure needs tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling to be redetermined;
esp. since INVPCID is _slow_.

A detailed performance analysis is available here:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3062e486-3539-8a1f-5724-16199420be71@intel.com

[ Peterz: Split out from big combo patch ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 21e94459
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