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x86: tlb flush avoid superflous leave_mm()
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:42:28 +0000 (11:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:43:29 +0000 (19:43 +1100)
commit7517126ed637d632e1a4282dc8127adb98f8d331
tree80da3e79234d401f5411c705d842ec312eac915c
parent86368503ae3ce83cbe5da45ec6832825d384da3e
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