4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d8bced79af1db6734f66b42064cc773cada2ce99 upstream. On my Skylake laptop, INVPCID function 2 (flush absolutely everything) takes about 376ns, whereas saving flags, twiddling CR4.PGE to flush global mappings, and restoring flags takes about 539ns. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ed0ef62581c0ea9c99b9bf6df726015e96d44743.1454096309.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_gl { unsigned long flags; + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) { + /* + * Using INVPCID is considerably faster than a pair of writes + * to CR4 sandwiched inside an IRQ flag save/restore. + */ + invpcid_flush_all(); + return; + } + /* * Read-modify-write to CR4 - protect it from preemption and * from interrupts. (Use the raw variant because this code can