mm/mmu_notifier: avoid call to invalidate_range() in range_end()

This is an optimization patch that only affect mmu_notifier users which
rely on the invalidate_range() callback.  This patch avoids calling that
callback twice in a row from inside __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Existing pattern (before this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()
        mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()

New pattern (after this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end()

We call the invalidate_range callback after clearing the page table
under the page table lock and we skip the call to invalidate_range
inside the __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() function.

Idea from Andrea Arcangeli

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-3-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jérôme Glisse
2017-11-15 17:34:11 -08:00
提交者 Linus Torvalds
父節點 0f10851ea4
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@@ -190,7 +190,9 @@ void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mm_struct *mm,
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start);
void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
unsigned long start,
unsigned long end,
bool only_end)
{
struct mmu_notifier *mn;
int id;
@@ -204,8 +206,13 @@ void __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(struct mm_struct *mm,
* subsystem registers either invalidate_range_start()/end() or
* invalidate_range(), so this will be no additional overhead
* (besides the pointer check).
*
* We skip call to invalidate_range() if we know it is safe ie
* call site use mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end() which
* is safe to do when we know that a call to invalidate_range()
* already happen under page table lock.
*/
if (mn->ops->invalidate_range)
if (!only_end && mn->ops->invalidate_range)
mn->ops->invalidate_range(mn, mm, start, end);
if (mn->ops->invalidate_range_end)
mn->ops->invalidate_range_end(mn, mm, start, end);