linux-kernel - [patch V3 03/20] sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage

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Message-ID: <20251029124515.466070081@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:08:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@...hat.com>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@...icios.com>,
 Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
 "Gautham R. Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
 Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
 Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
 Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [patch V3 03/20] sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage

Both the per CPU storage and the data in mm_struct are heavily used in
context switch. As they can end up next to other frequently modified data,
they are subject to false sharing.

Make them cache line aligned.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 include/linux/rseq_types.h |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/rseq_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/rseq_types.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ struct sched_mm_cid {
  */
 struct mm_cid_pcpu {
 	unsigned int	cid;
-};
+}____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;

 /**
  * struct mm_mm_cid - Storage for per MM CID data
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ struct mm_mm_cid {
 	struct mm_cid_pcpu	__percpu *pcpu;
 	unsigned int		nr_cpus_allowed;
 	raw_spinlock_t		lock;
-};
+}____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 #else /* CONFIG_SCHED_MM_CID */
 struct mm_mm_cid { };
 struct sched_mm_cid { };