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x86/mm/cpa: Unconditionally avoid WBINDV when we can

CAT has happened, WBINDV is bad (even before CAT blowing away the
entire cache on a multi-core platform wasn't nice), try not to use it
ever.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Bin Yang <bin.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919085947.933674526@infradead.org
Peter Zijlstra 7 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 16 deletions
  1. 2 16
      arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

+ 2 - 16
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

@@ -319,26 +319,12 @@ static void cpa_flush_array(unsigned long *start, int numpages, int cache,
 			    int in_flags, struct page **pages)
 {
 	unsigned int i, level;
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
-	/*
-	 * Avoid wbinvd() because it causes latencies on all CPUs,
-	 * regardless of any CPU isolation that may be in effect.
-	 *
-	 * This should be extended for CAT enabled systems independent of
-	 * PREEMPT because wbinvd() does not respect the CAT partitions and
-	 * this is exposed to unpriviledged users through the graphics
-	 * subsystem.
-	 */
-	unsigned long do_wbinvd = 0;
-#else
-	unsigned long do_wbinvd = cache && numpages >= 1024; /* 4M threshold */
-#endif
 
 	BUG_ON(irqs_disabled() && !early_boot_irqs_disabled);
 
-	on_each_cpu(__cpa_flush_all, (void *) do_wbinvd, 1);
+	flush_tlb_all();
 
-	if (!cache || do_wbinvd)
+	if (!cache)
 		return;
 
 	/*