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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>
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:53:10 +0000 (14:53 +1000)
commitd713f8627da62cb7896446ff34f4f45053e56d76
tree6ca4c378125cb1d8c13321b80533dee95abe8bad
parent8ab6d00c8dee3f99971d95d4957541ad989d466e
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