[PATCH] Avoid double flush in do_tlb_flush_all()

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Aug 30 2008 - 06:20:31 EST


Avoid double flush in do_tlb_flush_all()

leave_mm already flushes the TLBs, so don't need to flush directly before that
in do_flush_tlb_all(). Avoid the double flush.

Pointed out by Rainer Weikusat

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/tlb_32.c | 5 ++---
arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c | 7 +++----
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc.orig/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_32.c
+++ linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_32.c
@@ -229,11 +229,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page);

static void do_flush_tlb_all(void *info)
{
- unsigned long cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
- __flush_tlb_all();
if (per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate, cpu).state == TLBSTATE_LAZY)
leave_mm(cpu);
+ else
+ __flush_tlb_all(smp_processor_id());
}

void flush_tlb_all(void)
Index: linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc.orig/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
+++ linux-2.6.27-rc4-misc/arch/x86/kernel/tlb_64.c
@@ -266,11 +266,10 @@ void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struc

static void do_flush_tlb_all(void *info)
{
- unsigned long cpu = smp_processor_id();
-
- __flush_tlb_all();
if (read_pda(mmu_state) == TLBSTATE_LAZY)
- leave_mm(cpu);
+ leave_mm(smp_processor_id());
+ else
+ __flush_tlb_all();
}

void flush_tlb_all(void)
--
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