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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@intel.linux.com>2006-03-25 16:30:10 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-25 09:10:54 -0800
commita9ba9a3b3897561d01e04cd21433746df46548c0 (patch)
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[PATCH] x86_64: prefetch the mmap_sem in the fault path
In a micro-benchmark that stresses the pagefault path, the down_read_trylock on the mmap_sem showed up quite high on the profile. Turns out this lock is bouncing between cpus quite a bit and thus is cache-cold a lot. This patch prefetches the lock (for write) as early as possible (and before some other somewhat expensive operations). With this patch, the down_read_trylock basically fell out of the top of profile. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
index de91e17daf6f..316c53de47bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
@@ -314,11 +314,13 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
unsigned long flags;
siginfo_t info;
+ tsk = current;
+ mm = tsk->mm;
+ prefetchw(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
/* get the address */
__asm__("movq %%cr2,%0":"=r" (address));
- tsk = current;
- mm = tsk->mm;
info.si_code = SEGV_MAPERR;