Re: please consider for stable: "s390/mm: use non-quiescing sske for KVM switch to keyed guest"

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 05:15:20PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> stable team, please consider
> commit 3ae11dbcfac906a8c3a480e98660a823130dc16a
> It will noticeable reduce system overhead when this happens on multiple CPUs.
> 
> ----snip----
> commit 3ae11dbcfac906a8c3a480e98660a823130dc16a
>     s390/mm: use non-quiescing sske for KVM switch to keyed guest
>     
>     The switch to a keyed guest does not require a classic sske as the other
>     guest CPUs are not accessing the key before the switch is complete.
>     By using the NQ SSKE things are faster especially with multiple guests.
> 
>     
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Janis Schoetterl-Glausch <scgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220530092706.11637-3-borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
> index 697df02362af..4909dcd762e8 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ void ptep_zap_key(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
>  	pgste_val(pgste) |= PGSTE_GR_BIT | PGSTE_GC_BIT;
>  	ptev = pte_val(*ptep);
>  	if (!(ptev & _PAGE_INVALID) && (ptev & _PAGE_WRITE))
> -		page_set_storage_key(ptev & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_DEFAULT_KEY, 1);
> +		page_set_storage_key(ptev & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_DEFAULT_KEY, 0);
>  	pgste_set_unlock(ptep, pgste);
>  	preempt_enable();
>  }

Now queued up to all stable branches (as you didn't mention
otherwise...)

thanks,

greg k-h



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