From 1e02ce4cccdcb9688386e5b8d2c9fa4660b45389 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:58:08 -0700 Subject: x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4 Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4. CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a per-cpu variable. To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm. The heaviest users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and __switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: "hillf.zj" Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head64.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c index eda1a865641e..3b241f0ca005 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c @@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data) (__START_KERNEL & PGDIR_MASK))); BUILD_BUG_ON(__fix_to_virt(__end_of_fixed_addresses) <= MODULES_END); + cr4_init_shadow(); + /* Kill off the identity-map trampoline */ reset_early_page_tables(); -- cgit v1.2.3