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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
index 1dab5194fd9d..d4c073630175 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
@@ -51,21 +51,6 @@ static unsigned int stack_maxrandom_size(void)
 #define MIN_GAP (128*1024*1024UL + stack_maxrandom_size())
 #define MAX_GAP (TASK_SIZE/6*5)
 
-/*
- * True on X86_32 or when emulating IA32 on X86_64
- */
-static int mmap_is_ia32(void)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	return 1;
-#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
-	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32))
-		return 1;
-#endif
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static int mmap_is_legacy(void)
 {
 	if (current->personality & ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT)