linux-kernel - [RFC 04/13] x86/mm: If INVPCID is available, use it to flush global mappings

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Date:	Fri,  8 Jan 2016 15:15:22 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC 04/13] x86/mm: If INVPCID is available, use it to flush global mappings

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

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 20fc38d8478a..4eba5164430d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -145,6 +145,15 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	if (static_cpu_has_safe(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) {
+		/*
+		 * Using INVPCID is considerably faster than a pair of writes
+		 * to CR4 sandwiched inside an IRQ flag save/restore.
+		 */
+		invpcid_flush_everything();
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Read-modify-write to CR4 - protect it from preemption and
 	 * from interrupts. (Use the raw variant because this code can
-- 
2.5.0