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x86: tlb flush avoid superflous leave_mm()
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:49:42 +0000 (10:49 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:38:19 +0000 (18:38 +1100)
commit7ebe3a85233f79b11b12770f0bab103dbb1944e6
tree442bd0df984e1c557f87a322e63b48ff25b379d3
parent2d968848d7f02770e89ff8111d02d86ea0f30ecc
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 <>
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c