x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flush

Most of the logic here is in the documentation file.  Please take
a look at it.

I know we've come full-circle here back to a tunable, but this
new one is *WAY* simpler.  I challenge anyone to describe in one
sentence how the old one worked.  Here's the way the new one
works:

	If we are flushing more pages than the ceiling, we use
	the full flush, otherwise we use per-page flushes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154101.12B52CAF@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 6f00ecb9feeb..cb7caddf0902 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -265,3 +265,49 @@ void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 		on_each_cpu(do_kernel_range_flush, &info, 1);
 	}
 }
+
+static ssize_t tlbflush_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
+			     size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	char buf[32];
+	unsigned int len;
+
+	len = sprintf(buf, "%ld\n", tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling);
+	return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, len);
+}
+
+static ssize_t tlbflush_write_file(struct file *file,
+		 const char __user *user_buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	char buf[32];
+	ssize_t len;
+	int ceiling;
+
+	len = min(count, sizeof(buf) - 1);
+	if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, len))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	buf[len] = '\0';
+	if (kstrtoint(buf, 0, &ceiling))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (ceiling < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling = ceiling;
+	return count;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations fops_tlbflush = {
+	.read = tlbflush_read_file,
+	.write = tlbflush_write_file,
+	.llseek = default_llseek,
+};
+
+static int __init create_tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling(void)
+{
+	debugfs_create_file("tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
+			    arch_debugfs_dir, NULL, &fops_tlbflush);
+	return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(create_tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling);