linux/arch/x86
Dave Hansen e9f4e0a9fe x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing
I think the flush_tlb_mm_range() code that tries to tune the
flush sizes based on the CPU needs to get ripped out for
several reasons:

1. It is obviously buggy.  It uses mm->total_vm to judge the
   task's footprint in the TLB.  It should certainly be using
   some measure of RSS, *NOT* ->total_vm since only resident
   memory can populate the TLB.
2. Haswell, and several other CPUs are missing from the
   intel_tlb_flushall_shift_set() function.  Thus, it has been
   demonstrated to bitrot quickly in practice.
3. It is plain wrong in my vm:
	[    0.037444] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
	[    0.037444] tlb_flushall_shift: 6
   Which leads to it to never use invlpg.
4. The assumptions about TLB refill costs are wrong:
	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337782555-8088-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
    (more on this in later patches)
5. I can not reproduce the original data: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
   I believe the sample times were too short.  Running the
   benchmark in a loop yields times that vary quite a bit.

Note that this leaves us with a static ceiling of 1 page.  This
is a conservative, dumb setting, and will be revised in a later
patch.

This also removes the code which attempts to predict whether we
are flushing data or instructions.  We expect instruction flushes
to be relatively rare and not worth tuning for explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154055.ABC88E89@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-07-31 08:48:50 -07:00
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boot Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master 2014-06-08 11:31:16 -07:00
configs USB: remove CONFIG_USB_DEBUG from defconfig files 2014-05-28 09:40:45 -07:00
crypto crypto: ghash-clmulni-intel - Use u128 instead of be128 for internal key 2014-04-04 21:06:14 +08:00
ia32 x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C 2014-05-05 13:18:51 -07:00
include x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing 2014-07-31 08:48:50 -07:00
kernel x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing 2014-07-31 08:48:50 -07:00
kvm At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this 2014-06-04 08:47:12 -07:00
lguest asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/* 2014-05-05 16:07:44 -07:00
lib x86, boot: Carve out early cmdline parsing function 2014-05-20 20:21:24 -07:00
math-emu asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/* 2014-05-05 16:07:44 -07:00
mm x86/mm: Rip out complicated, out-of-date, buggy TLB flushing 2014-07-31 08:48:50 -07:00
net net: filter: x86: fix JIT address randomization 2014-05-13 18:31:13 -04:00
oprofile x86, oprofile, nmi: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration 2014-03-20 13:43:43 +01:00
pci x86: enable DMA CMA with swiotlb 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
platform Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master 2014-06-08 11:31:16 -07:00
power asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/* 2014-05-05 16:07:44 -07:00
realmode x86/build: Supress realmode.bin is up to date message 2014-04-16 15:17:24 +02:00
syscalls x86, x32: Use compat shims for io_{setup,submit} 2014-05-04 17:49:22 -07:00
tools x86/build: Supress "Nothing to be done for ..." messages 2014-04-14 11:44:36 +02:00
um x86, vdso: Clean up 32-bit vs 64-bit vdso params 2014-05-05 13:18:40 -07:00
vdso x86, vdso: Use <tools/le_byteshift.h> for littleendian access 2014-06-06 14:54:54 -07:00
video
xen Merge branch 'x86/vdso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-05 08:05:29 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-05 07:46:15 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-nuke-platforms-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 13:15:58 -07:00
Kconfig.debug x86/efi: Dump the EFI page table 2014-03-04 16:17:17 +00:00
Makefile x86-64, build: Fix stack protector Makefile breakage with 32-bit userland 2014-05-07 14:14:44 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um