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| author | Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> | 2021-02-21 02:17:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2021-03-06 14:59:10 +0300 |
| commit | 09c5272e48614a30598e759c3c7bed126d22037d (patch) | |
| tree | 5f9090493a1510710e2d9e3e2dd7cfd1c1d46343 /arch/x86/mm | |
| parent | 2f4305b19fe6a2a261d76c21856c5598f7d878fe (diff) | |
| download | linux-09c5272e48614a30598e759c3c7bed126d22037d.tar.xz | |
x86/mm/tlb: Do not make is_lazy dirty for no reason
Blindly writing to is_lazy for no reason, when the written value is
identical to the old value, makes the cacheline dirty for no reason.
Avoid making such writes to prevent cache coherency traffic for no
reason.
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210220231712.2475218-7-namit@vmware.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c index 345a0aff5de4..17ec4bfeee67 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -469,7 +469,8 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, __flush_tlb_all(); } #endif - this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate_shared.is_lazy, false); + if (was_lazy) + this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate_shared.is_lazy, false); /* * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier and |