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| author | Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> | 2023-02-03 08:18:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-03-29 01:20:08 +0200 |
| commit | 88e3009b5283bbd41447f0352d0b9df16cf6f183 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b1bd9f8227e2ded210820aede11453565397f4c /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | lazy tlb: introduce lazy tlb mm refcount helper functions (diff) | |
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lazy tlb: allow lazy tlb mm refcounting to be configurable
Add CONFIG_MMU_TLB_REFCOUNT which enables refcounting of the lazy tlb mm
when it is context switched. This can be disabled by architectures that
don't require this refcounting if they clean up lazy tlb mms when the last
refcount is dropped. Currently this is always enabled, so the patch
introduces no functional change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index e3511afbb7f2..643f8a04141e 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -465,6 +465,23 @@ config ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM irqs disabled over activate_mm. Architectures that do IPI based TLB shootdowns should enable this. +# Use normal mm refcounting for MMU_LAZY_TLB kernel thread references. +# MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT=n can improve the scalability of context switching +# to/from kernel threads when the same mm is running on a lot of CPUs (a large +# multi-threaded application), by reducing contention on the mm refcount. +# +# This can be disabled if the architecture ensures no CPUs are using an mm as a +# "lazy tlb" beyond its final refcount (i.e., by the time __mmdrop frees the mm +# or its kernel page tables). This could be arranged by arch_exit_mmap(), or +# final exit(2) TLB flush, for example. +# +# To implement this, an arch *must*: +# Ensure the _lazy_tlb variants of mmgrab/mmdrop are used when manipulating +# the lazy tlb reference of a kthread's ->active_mm (non-arch code has been +# converted already). +config MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT + def_bool y + config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG bool |