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x86: tlb flush avoid superflous leave_mm()
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:03:07 +0000 (15:03 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:13:34 +0000 (15:13 +1100)
commit5c8319540538d2cadbe06605b4e912fdabea8ebc
tree078fe47e9aa5fa87950026e9290ef6eeb055a483
parenta6c2479d08d6c3bd58d72295e39f9267aea6b999
x86: tlb flush avoid superflous leave_mm()

If just one page VA tlb is required to be flushed and current task is in
lazy TLB state, doing leave_mm() is superfluous because it flushes the
whole TLB.  This can reduce some TLB miss.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c