From patchwork Wed Jan 9 11:47:34 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior X-Patchwork-Id: 10753929 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628906C2 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51CE728F5C for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 44D7D28F7D; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:50:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB71C28F5C for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729670AbfAILuL (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2019 06:50:11 -0500 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:56193 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731028AbfAILsk (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2019 06:48:40 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=bazinga.breakpoint.cc) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ghCLZ-0007Al-UX; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:48:34 +0100 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , Paolo Bonzini , =?utf-8?b?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Subject: [PATCH 12/22] x86/fpu: Only write PKRU if it is different from current Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:47:34 +0100 Message-Id: <20190109114744.10936-13-bigeasy@linutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190109114744.10936-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> References: <20190109114744.10936-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Dave Hansen says that the `wrpkru' is more expensive than `rdpkru'. It has a higher cycle cost and it's also practically a (light) speculation barrier. As an optimisation read the current PKRU value and only write the new one if it is different. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h index 43c029cdc3fe8..c2ccf71b22dd6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline u32 __read_pkru(void) return pkru; } -static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru) +static inline void __write_pkru_insn(u32 pkru) { u32 ecx = 0, edx = 0; @@ -118,6 +118,17 @@ static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru) asm volatile(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xef\n\t" : : "a" (pkru), "c"(ecx), "d"(edx)); } + +static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru) +{ + /* + * Writting PKRU is expensive. Only write the PKRU value if it is + * different from the current one. + */ + if (pkru == __read_pkru()) + return; + __write_pkru_insn(pkru); +} #else static inline u32 __read_pkru(void) {