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Andy Lutomirski 675357362a Revert "x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code" 
This reverts commit 43858b4f25.

The reason I removed the leave_mm() calls in question is because the
heuristic wasn't needed after that patch.  With the original version
of my PCID series, we never flushed a "lazy cpu" (i.e. a CPU running
kernel thread) due a flush on the loaded mm.

Unfortunately, that caused architectural issues, so now I've
reinstated these flushes on non-PCID systems in:

    commit b956575bed ("x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode").

That, in turn, gives us a power management and occasionally
performance regression as compared to old kernels: a process that
goes into a deep idle state on a given CPU and gets its mm flushed
due to activity on a different CPU will wake the idle CPU.

Reinstate the old ugly heuristic: if a CPU goes into ACPI C3 or an
intel_idle state that is likely to cause a TLB flush gets its mm
switched to init_mm before going idle.

FWIW, this heuristic is lousy.  Whether we should change CR3 before
idle isn't a good hint except insofar as the performance hit is a bit
lower if the TLB is getting flushed by the idle code anyway.  What we
really want to know is whether we anticipate being idle long enough
that the mm is likely to be flushed before we wake up.  This is more a
matter of the expected latency than the idle state that gets chosen.
This heuristic also completely fails on systems that don't know
whether the TLB will be flushed (e.g. AMD systems?).  OTOH it may be a
bit obsolete anyway -- PCID systems don't presently benefit from this
heuristic at all.

We also shouldn't do this callback from innermost bit of the idle code
due to the RCU nastiness it causes.  All the information need is
available before rcu_idle_enter() needs to happen.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 43858b4f25 "x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c513bbd4e653747213e05bc7062de000bf0202a5.1509793738.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-04 15:01:50 +01:00
arch Revert "x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code" 2017-11-04 15:01:50 +01:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge commit 'tags/keys-fixes-20171018' into fixes-v4.14-rc5 2017-10-19 12:28:38 +11:00
Documentation Kbuild fixes for v4.14 (2nd) 2017-10-28 11:01:57 -07:00
drivers Revert "x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code" 2017-11-04 15:01:50 +01:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs Various SMB3 fixes for 4.14 and stable 2017-10-28 08:39:35 -07:00
include PM / QoS: Fix default runtime_pm device resume latency 2017-10-30 10:54:57 +01:00
init kbuild: Fix optimization level choice default 2017-10-07 20:08:05 +09:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-29 08:11:49 -07:00
lib Mark 'ioremap_page_range()' as possibly sleeping 2017-10-30 10:09:56 -07:00
mm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-21 22:44:48 -04:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-29 08:11:49 -07:00
samples Fix tracing sample code warning. 2017-10-27 20:35:31 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.14 (2nd) 2017-10-28 11:01:57 -07:00
security Revert "apparmor: add base infastructure for socket mediation" 2017-10-26 19:35:35 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda - fix headset mic problem for Dell machines with alc236 2017-10-24 14:32:24 +02:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-29 08:11:49 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS xen: fixes for 4.14-rc7 2017-10-27 20:41:05 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc7 2017-10-29 13:58:38 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.