x86/mm/tlb: Remove 'struct flush_tlb_info' from the stack
Move flush_tlb_info variables off the stack. This allows to align flush_tlb_info to cache-line and avoid potentially unnecessary cache line movements. It also allows to have a fixed virtual-to-physical translation of the variables, which reduces TLB misses. Use per-CPU struct for flush_tlb_mm_range() and flush_tlb_kernel_range(). Add debug assertions to ensure there are no nested TLB flushes that might overwrite the per-CPU data. For arch_tlbbatch_flush() use a const struct. Results when running a microbenchmarks that performs 10^6 MADV_DONTEED operations and touching a page, in which 3 additional threads run a busy-wait loop (5 runs, PTI and retpolines are turned off): base off-stack ---- --------- avg (usec/op) 1.629 1.570 (-3%) stddev 0.014 0.009 Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425230143.7008-1-namit@vmware.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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