x86: defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear()

PAE mode requires that we reload cr3 in order to guarantee that
changes to the pgd will be noticed by the processor.  This means that
in principle pud_clear needs to reload cr3 every time.  However,
because reloading cr3 implies a tlb flush, we want to avoid it where
possible.

pud_clear() is only used in a couple of places:
 - in free_pmd_range(), when pulling down a range of process address space, and
 - huge_pmd_unshare()

In both cases, the calling code will do a a tlb flush anyway, so
there's no need to do it within pud_clear().

In free_pmd_range(), the pud_clear is immediately followed by
pmd_free_tlb(); we can hook that to make the mmu_gather do an
unconditional full flush to make sure cr3 gets reloaded.

In huge_pmd_unshare, it is followed by flush_tlb_range, which always
results in a full cr3-reload tlb flush.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This commit is contained in:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2008-01-30 13:34:11 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f212ec4b7b
commit fa28ba21ce
2 changed files with 22 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ static inline void pmd_free(pmd_t *pmd)
static inline void __pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
{
/* This is called just after the pmd has been detached from
the pgd, which requires a full tlb flush to be recognized
by the CPU. Rather than incurring multiple tlb flushes
while the address space is being pulled down, make the tlb
gathering machinery do a full flush when we're done. */
tlb->fullmm = 1;
paravirt_release_pd(__pa(pmd) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmd));
}

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@ -96,14 +96,23 @@ static inline void pud_clear(pud_t *pudp)
set_pud(pudp, __pud(0));
/*
* Pentium-II erratum A13: in PAE mode we explicitly have to flush
* the TLB via cr3 if the top-level pgd is changed...
* In principle we need to do a cr3 reload here to make sure
* the processor recognizes the changed pgd. In practice, all
* the places where pud_clear() gets called are followed by
* full tlb flushes anyway, so we can defer the cost here.
*
* XXX I don't think we need to worry about this here, since
* when clearing the pud, the calling code needs to flush the
* tlb anyway. But do it now for safety's sake. - jsgf
* Specifically:
*
* mm/memory.c:free_pmd_range() - immediately after the
* pud_clear() it does a pmd_free_tlb(). We change the
* mmu_gather structure to do a full tlb flush (which has the
* effect of reloading cr3) when the pagetable free is
* complete.
*
* arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c:huge_pmd_unshare() - the call to
* this is followed by a flush_tlb_range, which on x86 does a
* full tlb flush.
*/
write_cr3(read_cr3());
}
#define pud_page(pud) \