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* [PATCH] mm/x86: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal
@ 2013-02-28 22:55 Boris Ostrovsky
  2013-02-28 23:37 ` Borislav Petkov
  2013-03-04 15:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Boris Ostrovsky @ 2013-02-28 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: hpa, bp
  Cc: mingo, tglx, konrad.wilk, rostedt, gregkh, samu.kallio, kraman,
	jwboyer, xen-devel, linux-kernel, stable, Boris Ostrovsky

Invoking arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() results in calls to
preempt_enable()/disable() which may have performance impact.

Since lazy MMU is not used on bare metal we can patch away
arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() so that it is never called in such
environment.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       |  5 ++++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c            | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 arch/x86/lguest/boot.c                |  1 +
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c                    |  1 +
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index 5edd174..7361e47 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -703,7 +703,10 @@ static inline void arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
 	PVOP_VCALL0(pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.leave);
 }
 
-void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void);
+static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
+{
+	PVOP_VCALL0(pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.flush);
+}
 
 static inline void __set_fixmap(unsigned /* enum fixed_addresses */ idx,
 				phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t flags)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
index 142236e..b3b0ec1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct pv_lazy_ops {
 	/* Set deferred update mode, used for batching operations. */
 	void (*enter)(void);
 	void (*leave)(void);
+	void (*flush)(void);
 };
 
 struct pv_time_ops {
@@ -679,6 +680,7 @@ void paravirt_end_context_switch(struct task_struct *next);
 
 void paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(void);
 void paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu(void);
+void paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu(void);
 
 void _paravirt_nop(void);
 u32 _paravirt_ident_32(u32);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
index 17fff18..8bfb335 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -263,6 +263,18 @@ void paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu(void)
 	leave_lazy(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU);
 }
 
+void paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu(void)
+{
+	preempt_disable();
+
+	if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
+		arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+		arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+	}
+
+	preempt_enable();
+}
+
 void paravirt_start_context_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
 {
 	BUG_ON(preemptible());
@@ -292,18 +304,6 @@ enum paravirt_lazy_mode paravirt_get_lazy_mode(void)
 	return this_cpu_read(paravirt_lazy_mode);
 }
 
-void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
-{
-	preempt_disable();
-
-	if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
-		arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
-		arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
-	}
-
-	preempt_enable();
-}
-
 struct pv_info pv_info = {
 	.name = "bare hardware",
 	.paravirt_enabled = 0,
@@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops pv_mmu_ops = {
 	.lazy_mode = {
 		.enter = paravirt_nop,
 		.leave = paravirt_nop,
+		.flush = paravirt_nop,
 	},
 
 	.set_fixmap = native_set_fixmap,
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
index 1cbd89c..7114c63 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
@@ -1334,6 +1334,7 @@ __init void lguest_init(void)
 	pv_mmu_ops.read_cr3 = lguest_read_cr3;
 	pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.enter = paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu;
 	pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.leave = lguest_leave_lazy_mmu_mode;
+	pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.flush = paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu;
 	pv_mmu_ops.pte_update = lguest_pte_update;
 	pv_mmu_ops.pte_update_defer = lguest_pte_update;
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index e8e3493..f4f4105 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -2197,6 +2197,7 @@ static const struct pv_mmu_ops xen_mmu_ops __initconst = {
 	.lazy_mode = {
 		.enter = paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu,
 		.leave = xen_leave_lazy_mmu,
+		.flush = paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu,
 	},
 
 	.set_fixmap = xen_set_fixmap,
-- 
1.8.1.2


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* Re: [PATCH] mm/x86: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal
@ 2013-03-20 13:53 Boris Ostrovsky
  2013-03-21  0:08 ` Josh Boyer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Boris Ostrovsky @ 2013-03-20 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jwboyer
  Cc: mingo, konrad.wilk, tglx, rostedt, kraman, gregkh, stable, bp,
	samu.kallio, xen-devel, linux-kernel, hpa


----- jwboyer@redhat.com wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:25:44AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On 03/01/2013 07:14 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:52:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >>On 02/28/2013 04:42 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > >>>On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:36:29AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > >>>>On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:15:45PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >>>>>>I'll try to get someone to test this tomorrow.
> > >>>>Btw, you'd need to apply that other patch too
> > >>>>
> > >>>>http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=136206183814547&w=2
> > >>>>
> > >>>>so that arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() has at least one caller on
> x86_64.
> > >>>Yeah, we already have that applied.  It stops crashes in xen
> > >>>environments so we pulled it in as a bugfix.  Thanks though!
> > >>>
> > >>Who are "we"?
> > >Sorry, Fedora.  That patch has a link to a bug in it.  We applied
> the
> > >patch for that bug.  I'll apply Boris' patch on top and get the
> same
> > >people to test it.
> > 
> > Josh, have you had a chance to test this?
> 
> I've tested it on bare metal for a while now.  No problems noticed at
> all.  I've not heard back from Krishna who was testing it in the Xen
> environment.  Krishna?


Any updates?

Thanks.
-boris

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