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Paolo Bonzini authored
Thanks to all the work that was done by Andy Lutomirski and others, enter_from_user_mode() and prepare_exit_to_usermode() are now called only with interrupts disabled. Let's provide them a version of user_enter()/user_exit() that skips saving and restoring the interrupt flag. On an AMD-based machine I tested this patch on, with force-enabled context tracking, the speed-up in system calls was 90 clock cycles or 6%, measured with the following simple benchmark: #include <sys/signal.h> #include <time.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> unsigned long rdtsc() { unsigned long result; asm volatile("rdtsc; shl $32, %%rdx; mov %%eax, %%eax\n" "or %%rdx, %%rax" : "=a" (result) : : "rdx"); return result; } int main() { unsigned long tsc1, tsc2; int pid = getpid(); int i; tsc1 = rdtsc(); for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) kill(pid, SIGWINCH); tsc2 = rdtsc(); printf("%ld\n", tsc2 - tsc1); } Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466434712-31440-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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