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@@ -130,7 +130,25 @@ static inline void arch_bprm_mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm,
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static inline void arch_unmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
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{
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- mpx_notify_unmap(mm, vma, start, end);
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+ /*
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+ * mpx_notify_unmap() goes and reads a rarely-hot
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+ * cacheline in the mm_struct. That can be expensive
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+ * enough to be seen in profiles.
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+ *
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+ * The mpx_notify_unmap() call and its contents have been
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+ * observed to affect munmap() performance on hardware
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+ * where MPX is not present.
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+ *
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+ * The unlikely() optimizes for the fast case: no MPX
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+ * in the CPU, or no MPX use in the process. Even if
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+ * we get this wrong (in the unlikely event that MPX
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+ * is widely enabled on some system) the overhead of
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+ * MPX itself (reading bounds tables) is expected to
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+ * overwhelm the overhead of getting this unlikely()
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+ * consistently wrong.
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+ */
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+ if (unlikely(cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_MPX)))
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+ mpx_notify_unmap(mm, vma, start, end);
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}
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#endif /* _ASM_X86_MMU_CONTEXT_H */
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