From: Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> Blindly writing to is_lazy for no reason, when the written value is identical to the old value, makes the cacheline dirty for no reason. Avoid making such writes to prevent cache coherency traffic for no reason.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <na...@vmware.com> --- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c index 345a0aff5de4..17ec4bfeee67 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c @@ -469,7 +469,8 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, __flush_tlb_all(); } #endif - this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate_shared.is_lazy, false); + if (was_lazy) + this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate_shared.is_lazy, false); /* * The membarrier system call requires a full memory barrier and -- 2.25.1