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Commit 0f561fce authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/pti: Enable global pages for shared areas



The entry/exit text and cpu_entry_area are mapped into userspace and
the kernel.  But, they are not _PAGE_GLOBAL.  This creates unnecessary
TLB misses.

Add the _PAGE_GLOBAL flag for these areas.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406205515.2977EE7D@viggo.jf.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 639d6aaf
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