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x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal
authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:36:36 +0000 (09:36 -0400)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:25:10 +0000 (11:25 -0700)
commita12599ac03c92abb28ef7233872981e38e87dc28
tree1fe3621ebaf43ad5fb5ab644500676f2f158153f
parent230c0a828a745cdff4e7f03e046f62917a63bbc1
x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on bare metal

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.

[ hpa: the previous patch "Fix vmalloc_fault oops during lazy MMU
  updates" may cause a minor performance regression on
  bare metal.  This patch resolves that performance regression.  It is
  somewhat unclear to me if this is a good -stable candidate. ]

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364045796-10720-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> SEE NOTE ABOVE
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
arch/x86/xen/mmu.c