linux/arch
Borislav Petkov dfb09f9b7a x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its
shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive
number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the
cores of a compute module.

This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache
lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their
virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation.

This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12]
slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus
forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library
across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases.

It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with
which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86
individually, or both, or be completely disabled.

This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families
and/or vendors unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-05 12:26:44 -07:00
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alpha Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc 2011-07-19 22:10:05 -07:00
avr32 rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
blackfin rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] wire up sendmmsg() syscall for Itanium 2011-05-31 10:09:24 -07:00
m32r Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
m68k m68k: use kernel processor defines for conditional optimizations 2011-06-14 11:42:29 +10:00
microblaze Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
mips PM / MIPS: Convert i8259.c to using syscore_ops 2011-07-16 00:59:54 +02:00
mn10300 MN10300: asm/uaccess.h needs to #include linux/kernel.h for might_sleep() 2011-06-21 18:31:44 -07:00
parisc Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
powerpc powerpc/mm: Fix memory_block_size_bytes() for non-pseries 2011-07-12 11:16:45 +10:00
s390 [S390] allow setting of upper 32 bit in smp_ctl_set_bit 2011-06-22 16:24:20 +02:00
score arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x 2011-06-30 10:43:22 -07:00
sparc sparc,kgdbts: fix compile regression with kgdb test suite 2011-07-21 17:29:49 -05:00
tile Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
um um: add asm/percpu.h 2011-06-27 18:00:12 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: using generic-y format for one line asm-generic files 2011-06-09 16:29:52 +08:00
x86 x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h 2011-08-05 12:26:44 -07:00
xtensa Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
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Kconfig mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00