linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 8/9] x86/mtrr: Avoid repeated save of MTRRs on boot-time CPU bringup

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Date:   Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:56:32 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, mimoja@...oja.de, hewenliang4@...wei.com,
        hushiyuan@...wei.com, luolongjun@...wei.com, hejingxian@...wei.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 8/9] x86/mtrr: Avoid repeated save of MTRRs on boot-time CPU bringup

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>

There's no need to repeatedly save the BSP's MTRRs for each AP we bring
up at boot time. And there's no need to use smp_call_function_single()
even for the one time we *do* want to do it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c
index 2746cac9d8a9..2884017586f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c
@@ -814,11 +814,20 @@ void mtrr_ap_init(void)
  */
 void mtrr_save_state(void)
 {
+	static bool mtrr_saved;
 	int first_cpu;
 
 	if (!mtrr_enabled())
 		return;
 
+	if (system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
+		if (!mtrr_saved) {
+			mtrr_save_fixed_ranges(NULL);
+			mtrr_saved = true;
+		}
+		return;
+	}
+
 	first_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
 	smp_call_function_single(first_cpu, mtrr_save_fixed_ranges, NULL, 1);
 }
-- 
2.31.1