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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2019-05-08 03:02:22 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>2019-06-22 11:38:52 +0200
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x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
With the new FSGSBASE instructions, FS and GSABSE can be efficiently read and writen in __switch_to(). Use that capability to preserve the full state. This will enable user code to do whatever it wants with the new instructions without any kernel-induced gotchas. (There can still be architectural gotchas: movl %gs,%eax; movl %eax,%gs may change GSBASE if WRGSBASE was used, but users are expected to read the CPU manual before doing things like that.) This is a considerable speedup. It seems to save about 100 cycles per context switch compared to the baseline 4.6-rc1 behavior on a Skylake laptop. [ chang: 5~10% performance improvements were seen with a context switch benchmark that ran threads with different FS/GSBASE values (to the baseline 4.16). Minor edit on the changelog. ] [ tglx: Masaage changelog ] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Ravi Shankar <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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