[PATCH v2 0/5] x86 switch_mm uninlining and IRQ improvements

From	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH v2 0/5] x86 switch_mm uninlining and IRQ improvements
Date	2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
Message-ID	<rsebL-2ma-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi all-

I've been playing with context switching lately, and I'm going to start
sending out some of the patches that should be mostly self-contained and
ready for -tip.

Here's a little batch to start improving switch_mm.  It uninlines it
and makes it run with IRQs off.  (AFAICT everyone who's modified it
thought it ran with IRQs off, but that's not always the case.  I
don't know of any bugs that this fixes, but it'll be needed for PCID
to avoid introducing really nasty races.)

This may also help a bit with FSGSBASE -- not sure yet.  It certainly
won't hurt.

It contains a trivial off-topic ARM patch to avoid breaking the build.

Andy Lutomirski (5):
  arm: Include linux/preempt.h from asm/mmu_context.h
  sched: Add switch_mm_irqs_off and use it in the scheduler
  x86/mm: Build arch/x86/mm/tlb.c even on !SMP
  x86/mm: Uninline switch_mm
  x86/mm: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm

 arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 101 ++------------------------------
 arch/x86/mm/Makefile               |   3 +-
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                  | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/mmu_context.h        |   7 +++
 kernel/sched/core.c                |   6 +-
 6 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

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2.5.5

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[PATCH v2 0/5] x86 switch_mm uninlining and IRQ improvements Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 3/5] x86/mm: Build arch/x86/mm/tlb.c even on !SMP Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 4/5] x86/mm: Uninline switch_mm Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 5/5] x86/mm: Turn off IRQs in switch_mm Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/5] arm: Include linux/preempt.h from asm/mmu_context.h Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/5] sched: Add switch_mm_irqs_off and use it in the scheduler Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 18:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] x86 switch_mm uninlining and IRQ improvements Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-04-27 20:10 +0200

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