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x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 May 2020 20:13:51 +0000 (16:13 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:47:02 +0000 (15:47 +0200)
commit2f97a68aefc406ea73c5d1347625dd9a0206b7d0
tree2db7e94a8b0229d7d1e9e9e2181205f3e1c8a9e3
parent204065f98b1e3f70d0b77011dde12b62a54224e2
x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available

With the new FSGSBASE instructions, FS and GSABSE can be efficiently read
and writen in __switch_to().  Use that capability to preserve the full
state.

This will enable user code to do whatever it wants with the new
instructions without any kernel-induced gotchas.  (There can still be
architectural gotchas: movl %gs,%eax; movl %eax,%gs may change GSBASE if
WRGSBASE was used, but users are expected to read the CPU manual before
doing things like that.)

This is a considerable speedup.  It seems to save about 100 cycles
per context switch compared to the baseline 4.6-rc1 behavior on a
Skylake laptop. This is mostly due to avoiding the WRMSR operation.

[ chang: 5~10% performance improvements were seen with a context switch
  benchmark that ran threads with different FS/GSBASE values (to the
  baseline 4.16). Minor edit on the changelog. ]

[ tglx: Masaage changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-8-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528201402.1708239-6-sashal@kernel.org
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c