From patchwork Wed Apr 3 16:41:43 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: 10884127 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 0A16917E0 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2019 16:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC3428A0D for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2019 16:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id DE0A528A0F; Wed, 3 Apr 2019 16:42:29 +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 91A9928A0E for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2019 16:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726151AbfDCQm1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Apr 2019 12:42:27 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:41943 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727021AbfDCQmY (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Apr 2019 12:42:24 -0400 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=flow.W.breakpoint.cc) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hBixv-0004GO-0K; Wed, 03 Apr 2019 18:42:19 +0200 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 14/27] x86/pkeys: Don't check if PKRU is zero before writting it Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 18:41:43 +0200 Message-Id: <20190403164156.19645-15-bigeasy@linutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190403164156.19645-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> References: <20190403164156.19645-1-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 write_pkru() checks if the current value is the same as the expected value. So instead just checking if the current and new value is zero (and skip the write in such a case) we can benefit from that. Remove the zero check of PKRU, write_pkru() provides a similar check. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c b/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c index 05bb9a44eb1c3..50f65fc1b9a3f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pkeys.c @@ -142,13 +142,6 @@ u32 init_pkru_value = PKRU_AD_KEY( 1) | PKRU_AD_KEY( 2) | PKRU_AD_KEY( 3) | void copy_init_pkru_to_fpregs(void) { u32 init_pkru_value_snapshot = READ_ONCE(init_pkru_value); - /* - * Any write to PKRU takes it out of the XSAVE 'init - * state' which increases context switch cost. Avoid - * writing 0 when PKRU was already 0. - */ - if (!init_pkru_value_snapshot && !read_pkru()) - return; /* * Override the PKRU state that came from 'init_fpstate' * with the baseline from the process.