[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 21491d5cd4584669add85e74ab86e33024ba53c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:36:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] x86, mm: Patch out arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() when running on
 bare metal

commit 511ba86e1d386f671084b5d0e6f110bb30b8eeb2 upstream.

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 at oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364045796-10720-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       |  5 ++++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c            | 25 +++++++++++++------------
 arch/x86/lguest/boot.c                |  1 +
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c                    |  1 +
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
index 6cbbabf..30355d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
@@ -741,7 +741,10 @@ static inline void arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
 	PVOP_VCALL0(pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.leave);
 }

-void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void);
+static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
+{
+	PVOP_VCALL0(pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.flush);
+}

 static inline void __set_fixmap(unsigned /* enum fixed_addresses */ idx,
 				phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t flags)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
index 8e8b9a4..faf2c04 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct pv_lazy_ops {
 	/* Set deferred update mode, used for batching operations. */
 	void (*enter)(void);
 	void (*leave)(void);
+	void (*flush)(void);
 };

 struct pv_time_ops {
@@ -680,6 +681,7 @@ void paravirt_end_context_switch(struct task_struct *next);

 void paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(void);
 void paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu(void);
+void paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu(void);

 void _paravirt_nop(void);
 u32 _paravirt_ident_32(u32);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
index 9ce8859..6be2673 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -263,6 +263,18 @@ void paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu(void)
 	leave_lazy(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU);
 }

+void paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu(void)
+{
+	preempt_disable();
+
+	if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
+		arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+		arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+	}
+
+	preempt_enable();
+}
+
 void paravirt_start_context_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
 {
 	BUG_ON(preemptible());
@@ -292,18 +304,6 @@ enum paravirt_lazy_mode paravirt_get_lazy_mode(void)
 	return this_cpu_read(paravirt_lazy_mode);
 }

-void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
-{
-	preempt_disable();
-
-	if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
-		arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
-		arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
-	}
-
-	preempt_enable();
-}
-
 struct pv_info pv_info = {
 	.name = "bare hardware",
 	.paravirt_enabled = 0,
@@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops pv_mmu_ops = {
 	.lazy_mode = {
 		.enter = paravirt_nop,
 		.leave = paravirt_nop,
+		.flush = paravirt_nop,
 	},

 	.set_fixmap = native_set_fixmap,
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
index 642d880..53272bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
@@ -1333,6 +1333,7 @@ __init void lguest_init(void)
 	pv_mmu_ops.read_cr3 = lguest_read_cr3;
 	pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.enter = paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu;
 	pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.leave = lguest_leave_lazy_mmu_mode;
+	pv_mmu_ops.lazy_mode.flush = paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu;
 	pv_mmu_ops.pte_update = lguest_pte_update;
 	pv_mmu_ops.pte_update_defer = lguest_pte_update;

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index dc5c3e3..51a5c3f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -2052,6 +2052,7 @@ static const struct pv_mmu_ops xen_mmu_ops __initconst = {
 	.lazy_mode = {
 		.enter = paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu,
 		.leave = xen_leave_lazy_mmu,
+		.flush = paravirt_flush_lazy_mmu,
 	},

 	.set_fixmap = xen_set_fixmap,
--
1.8.1.2