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authorRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>2018-07-16 15:03:36 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-07-17 09:35:34 +0200
commit95b0e6357d3e4e05349668940d7ff8f3b7e7e11e (patch)
tree94ae4f9a325fb0e0c5254b3b95a8abd3b9f6416d /arch/x86/include
parent64482aafe55fc7e84d0741c356f8176ee7bde357 (diff)
downloadlinux-95b0e6357d3e4e05349668940d7ff8f3b7e7e11e.tar.bz2
x86/mm/tlb: Always use lazy TLB mode
Now that CPUs in lazy TLB mode no longer receive TLB shootdown IPIs, except at page table freeing time, and idle CPUs will no longer get shootdown IPIs for things like mprotect and madvise, we can always use lazy TLB mode. Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: luto@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716190337.26133-7-riel@surriel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h16
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 3aa3204b5dc0..511bf5fae8b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -148,22 +148,6 @@ static inline unsigned long build_cr3_noflush(pgd_t *pgd, u16 asid)
#define __flush_tlb_one_user(addr) __native_flush_tlb_one_user(addr)
#endif
-static inline bool tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm(void)
-{
- /*
- * If we have PCID, then switching to init_mm is reasonably
- * fast. If we don't have PCID, then switching to init_mm is
- * quite slow, so we try to defer it in the hopes that we can
- * avoid it entirely. The latter approach runs the risk of
- * receiving otherwise unnecessary IPIs.
- *
- * This choice is just a heuristic. The tlb code can handle this
- * function returning true or false regardless of whether we have
- * PCID.
- */
- return !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID);
-}
-
struct tlb_context {
u64 ctx_id;
u64 tlb_gen;