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The idea behind this prefetch was to kick off a page table walk before returning from the fault, getting some pipelining advantage. But this never showed up any noticable performance advantage, and in fact with KUAP the prefetches are actually blocked and cause some kind of micro-architectural fault. Removing this improves page fault microbenchmark performance by about 9%. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Keep the early return in update_mmu_cache()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200504122907.49304-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.