From dfb09f9b7ab03fd367740e541a5caf830ed56726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:15:08 +0200 Subject: x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the cores of a compute module. This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation. This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12] slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases. It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86 individually, or both, or be completely disabled. This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families and/or vendors unaffected. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/mm/mmap.c | 15 --------------- 1 file changed, 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/mm') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c index 1dab5194fd9..d4c07363017 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c @@ -51,21 +51,6 @@ static unsigned int stack_maxrandom_size(void) #define MIN_GAP (128*1024*1024UL + stack_maxrandom_size()) #define MAX_GAP (TASK_SIZE/6*5) -/* - * True on X86_32 or when emulating IA32 on X86_64 - */ -static int mmap_is_ia32(void) -{ -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - return 1; -#endif -#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION - if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)) - return 1; -#endif - return 0; -} - static int mmap_is_legacy(void) { if (current->personality & ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2