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John Ogness 459fbe0069 x86/mm/cpa: Avoid wbinvd() for PREEMPT
Although wbinvd() is faster than flushing many individual pages, it blocks
the memory bus for "long" periods of time (>100us), thus directly causing
unusually large latencies on all CPUs, regardless of any CPU isolation
features that may be active. This is an unpriviledged operatation as it is
exposed to user space via the graphics subsystem.

For 1024 pages, flushing those pages individually can take up to 2200us,
but the task remains fully preemptible during that time.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-01-30 15:33:52 +01:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
arch x86/mm/cpa: Avoid wbinvd() for PREEMPT 2017-01-30 15:33:52 +01:00
block blk-mq: Remove unused variable 2017-01-18 15:14:15 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
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include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
lib mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
mm mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
samples bpf: fix samples xdp_tx_iptunnel and tc_l2_redirect with fake KBUILD_MODNAME 2017-01-20 12:04:07 -05:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-11 19:49:27 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-01-27 12:54:16 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc5 2017-01-22 12:54:15 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.