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Jan Beulich cae7395183 xen/x86: restore (fix) xen_set_pte_init() behavior 
Commit f7c90c2aa4 ("x86/xen: don't write ptes directly in 32-bit PV
guests") needlessly (and heavily) penalized 64-bit guests here: The
majority of the early page table updates is to writable pages (which get
converted to r/o only after all the writes are done), in particular
those involved in building the direct map (which consists of all 4k
mappings in PV). On my test system this accounts for almost 16 million
hypercalls when each could simply have been a plain memory write.

Switch back to using native_set_pte(), except for updates of early
ioremap tables (where a suitable accessor exists to recognize them).
With 32-bit PV support gone, this doesn't need to be further
conditionalized (albeit backports thereof may need adjustment).

To avoid a fair number (almost 256k on my test system) of trap-and-
emulate cases appearing as a result, switch the hook in
xen_pagetable_init().

Finally commit d6b186c1e2 ("x86/xen: avoid m2p lookup when setting
early page table entries") inserted a function ahead of
xen_set_pte_init(), separating it from its comment (which may have been
part of the reason why the performance regression wasn't anticipated /
recognized while codeing / reviewing the change mentioned further up).
Move the function up and adjust that comment to describe the new
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57ce1289-0297-e96e-79e1-cedafb5d9bf6@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
History 2021-11-02 07:45:43 -05:00
arch xen/x86: restore (fix) xen_set_pte_init() behavior 2021-11-02 07:45:43 -05:00
block for-5.16/inode-sync-2021-10-29 2021-11-01 10:25:27 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
fs audit/stable-5.16 PR 20211101 2021-11-01 21:17:39 -07:00
include Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
init Tracing updates for 5.16: 2021-11-01 20:05:19 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel audit/stable-5.16 PR 20211101 2021-11-01 21:17:39 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm arm64 updates for 5.16 2021-11-01 16:33:53 -07:00
net overflow updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 17:12:56 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 5.16: 2021-11-01 20:05:19 -07:00
scripts overflow updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 17:12:56 -07:00
security audit/stable-5.16 PR 20211101 2021-11-01 21:17:39 -07:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix microphone sound on Jieli webcam. 2021-10-19 08:07:01 +02:00
tools RCU pull request for v5.16 2021-11-01 20:25:38 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty 2021-09-23 11:01:12 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap media updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 18:45:08 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-11-01 21:24:02 -07:00
Makefile compiler hardening updates for v5.16-rc1 2021-11-01 17:09:03 -07:00
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.