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author | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> | 2019-04-03 18:41:42 +0200 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> | 2019-04-11 15:41:05 +0200 |
commit | 577ff465f5a6a5a0866d75a033844810baca20a0 (patch) | |
tree | 67cd0094d0e6fc68d212a9ed0737cb24354ef1bc /scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | |
parent | c806e88734b9e9aea260bf2261c129aa23968fca (diff) |
x86/fpu: Only write PKRU if it is different from current
According to Dave Hansen, WRPKRU is more expensive than RDPKRU. It has
a higher cycle cost and it's also practically a (light) speculation
barrier.
As an optimisation read the current PKRU value and only write the new
one if it is different.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: kvm ML <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: x86-ml <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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