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Gabriel Krisman Bertazi 9d91134c16 arm64: Avoid repeated AA64MMFR1_EL1 register read on pagefault path 
[ Upstream commit a89c6bcdac ]

Accessing AA64MMFR1_EL1 is expensive in KVM guests, since it is emulated
in the hypervisor.  In fact, ARM documentation mentions some feature
registers are not supposed to be accessed frequently by the OS, and
therefore should be emulated for guests [1].

Commit 0388f9c743 ("arm64: mm: Implement
arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte()") introduced a read of this register in
the page fault path.  But, even when the feature of setting faultaround
pages with the old flag is disabled for a given cpu, we are still paying
the cost of checking the register on every pagefault. This results in an
explosion of vmexit events in KVM guests, which directly impacts the
performance of virtualized workloads.  For instance, running kernbench
yields a 15% increase in system time solely due to the increased vmexit
cycles.

This patch avoids the extra cost by using the sanitized cached value.
It should be safe to do so, since this register mustn't change for a
given cpu.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Arm%20Developer%20Community/PDF/Learn%20the%20Architecture/Armv8-A%20virtualization.pdf?revision=a765a7df-1a00-434d-b241-357bfda2dd31

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230109151955.8292-1-krisman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2023-10-10 22:00:36 +02:00
arch arm64: Avoid repeated AA64MMFR1_EL1 register read on pagefault path 2023-10-10 22:00:36 +02:00
block block: factor out a bvec_set_page helper 2023-09-23 11:11:08 +02:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: lrw,xts - Replace strlcpy with strscpy 2023-09-23 11:11:01 +02:00
Documentation mm, memcg: reconsider kmem.limit_in_bytes deprecation 2023-10-06 14:57:06 +02:00
drivers ata: libata-scsi: Fix delayed scsi_rescan_device() execution 2023-10-10 22:00:35 +02:00
fs Revert "NFSv4: Retry LOCK on OLD_STATEID during delegation return" 2023-10-10 22:00:36 +02:00
include mm/memory: add vm_normal_folio() 2023-10-10 22:00:35 +02:00
init sched/psi: Select KERNFS as needed 2023-09-13 09:42:28 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/fs: remove sqe->rw_flags checking from LINKAT 2023-10-06 14:57:02 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel ring-buffer: Fix bytes info in per_cpu buffer stats 2023-10-10 22:00:36 +02:00
lib kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register() 2023-09-23 11:11:07 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: page_alloc: fix CMA and HIGHATOMIC landing on the wrong buddy list 2023-10-10 22:00:36 +02:00
net mptcp: process pending subflow error on close 2023-10-10 22:00:34 +02:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples samples/hw_breakpoint: fix building without module unloading 2023-09-23 11:11:09 +02:00
scripts kconfig: fix possible buffer overflow 2023-09-19 12:27:59 +02:00
security smack: Retrieve transmuting information in smack_inode_getsecurity() 2023-10-06 14:56:59 +02:00
sound ASoC: tegra: Fix redundant PLLA and PLLA_OUT0 updates 2023-10-10 22:00:34 +02:00
tools bpf: Fix BTF_ID symbol generation collision in tools/ 2023-10-06 14:57:04 +02:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() 2023-09-13 09:42:46 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS devlink: move code to a dedicated directory 2023-08-30 16:11:00 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.56 2023-10-06 14:57:07 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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

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.