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authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>2020-03-21 18:22:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-03-21 18:56:06 -0700
commit763802b53a427ed3cbd419dbba255c414fdd9e7c (patch)
treeb6dc4f611e81120ace08263b06a014bda53f0f53 /kernel/notifier.c
parent0715e6c516f106ed553828a671d30ad9a3431536 (diff)
x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()
Commit 3f8fd02b1bf1 ("mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in __purge_vmap_area_lazy()") introduced a call to vmalloc_sync_all() in the vunmap() code-path. While this change was necessary to maintain correctness on x86-32-pae kernels, it also adds additional cycles for architectures that don't need it. Specifically on x86-64 with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y some people reported severe performance regressions in micro-benchmarks because it now also calls the x86-64 implementation of vmalloc_sync_all() on vunmap(). But the vmalloc_sync_all() implementation on x86-64 is only needed for newly created mappings. To avoid the unnecessary work on x86-64 and to gain the performance back, split up vmalloc_sync_all() into two functions: * vmalloc_sync_mappings(), and * vmalloc_sync_unmappings() Most call-sites to vmalloc_sync_all() only care about new mappings being synchronized. The only exception is the new call-site added in the above mentioned commit. Shile Zhang directed us to a report of an 80% regression in reaim throughput. Fixes: 3f8fd02b1bf1 ("mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in __purge_vmap_area_lazy()") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Reported-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> [GHES] Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191009124418.8286-1-joro@8bytes.org Link: https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/lkp@lists.01.org/thread/4D3JPPHBNOSPFK2KEPC6KGKS6J25AIDB/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191113095530.228959-1-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/notifier.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/notifier.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c
index 63d7501ac638..5989bbb93039 100644
--- a/kernel/notifier.c
+++ b/kernel/notifier.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(notify_die);
int register_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
- vmalloc_sync_all();
+ vmalloc_sync_mappings();
return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&die_chain, nb);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_die_notifier);