[tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/tlb: Always use lazy TLB mode

[tip-bot for Rik van Riel]

Commit-ID:  95b0e6357d3e4e05349668940d7ff8f3b7e7e11e
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/95b0e6357d3e4e05349668940d7ff8f3b7e7e11e
Author:     Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:03:36 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:35:34 +0200

x86/mm/tlb: Always use lazy TLB mode

Now that CPUs in lazy TLB mode no longer receive TLB shootdown IPIs, except
at page table freeing time, and idle CPUs will no longer get shootdown IPIs
for things like mprotect and madvise, we can always use lazy TLB mode.

Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: efault@xxxxxx
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
Cc: luto@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716190337.26133-7-riel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 16 ----------------
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               | 15 +--------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 3aa3204b5dc0..511bf5fae8b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -148,22 +148,6 @@ static inline unsigned long build_cr3_noflush(pgd_t *pgd, u16 asid)
 #define __flush_tlb_one_user(addr) __native_flush_tlb_one_user(addr)
 #endif
 
-static inline bool tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm(void)
-{
-	/*
-	 * If we have PCID, then switching to init_mm is reasonably
-	 * fast.  If we don't have PCID, then switching to init_mm is
-	 * quite slow, so we try to defer it in the hopes that we can
-	 * avoid it entirely.  The latter approach runs the risk of
-	 * receiving otherwise unnecessary IPIs.
-	 *
-	 * This choice is just a heuristic.  The tlb code can handle this
-	 * function returning true or false regardless of whether we have
-	 * PCID.
-	 */
-	return !static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCID);
-}
-
 struct tlb_context {
 	u64 ctx_id;
 	u64 tlb_gen;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index e4156e37aa71..493559cae2d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -379,20 +379,7 @@ void enter_lazy_tlb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm) == &init_mm)
 		return;
 
-	if (tlb_defer_switch_to_init_mm()) {
-		/*
-		 * There's a significant optimization that may be possible
-		 * here.  We have accurate enough TLB flush tracking that we
-		 * don't need to maintain coherence of TLB per se when we're
-		 * lazy.  We do, however, need to maintain coherence of
-		 * paging-structure caches.  We could, in principle, leave our
-		 * old mm loaded and only switch to init_mm when
-		 * tlb_remove_page() happens.
-		 */
-		this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy, true);
-	} else {
-		switch_mm(NULL, &init_mm, NULL);
-	}
+	this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy, true);
 }
 
 /*