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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2017-05-28 10:00:15 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-06-05 09:59:44 +0200 |
commit | 3d28ebceaffab40f30afa87e33331560148d7b8b (patch) | |
tree | 2c1be6cfcb300f9609a07ac4cc1c5969bf96e27e /arch/x86/mm/init.c | |
parent | ce4a4e565f5264909a18c733b864c3f74467f69e (diff) |
x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB to track the actual loaded mm
Lazy TLB state is currently managed in a rather baroque manner.
AFAICT, there are three possible states:
- Non-lazy. This means that we're running a user thread or a
kernel thread that has called use_mm(). current->mm ==
current->active_mm == cpu_tlbstate.active_mm and
cpu_tlbstate.state == TLBSTATE_OK.
- Lazy with user mm. We're running a kernel thread without an mm
and we're borrowing an mm_struct. We have current->mm == NULL,
current->active_mm == cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, cpu_tlbstate.state
!= TLBSTATE_OK (i.e. TLBSTATE_LAZY or 0). The current cpu is set
in mm_cpumask(current->active_mm). CR3 points to
current->active_mm->pgd. The TLB is up to date.
- Lazy with init_mm. This happens when we call leave_mm(). We
have current->mm == NULL, current->active_mm ==
cpu_tlbstate.active_mm, but that mm is only relelvant insofar as
the scheduler is tracking it for refcounting. cpu_tlbstate.state
!= TLBSTATE_OK. The current cpu is clear in
mm_cpumask(current->active_mm). CR3 points to swapper_pg_dir,
i.e. init_mm->pgd.
This patch simplifies the situation. Other than perf, x86 stops
caring about current->active_mm at all. We have
cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm pointing to the mm that CR3 references. The
TLB is always up to date for that mm. leave_mm() just switches us
to init_mm. There are no longer any special cases for mm_cpumask,
and switch_mm() switches mms without worrying about laziness.
After this patch, cpu_tlbstate.state serves only to tell the TLB
flush code whether it may switch to init_mm instead of doing a
normal flush.
This makes fairly extensive changes to xen_exit_mmap(), which used
to look a bit like black magic.
Perf is unchanged. With or without this change, perf may behave a bit
erratically if it tries to read user memory in kernel thread context.
We should build on this patch to teach perf to never look at user
memory when cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm != current->mm.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c index c61183b57427..88ee942cb47d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c @@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ void __init zone_sizes_init(void) } DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate) = { - .active_mm = &init_mm, + .loaded_mm = &init_mm, .state = 0, .cr4 = ~0UL, /* fail hard if we screw up cr4 shadow initialization */ }; |