Audit is bad. It affects performance under all circumstances. It's also
dirty.
From LWN: "Andy submitted a patch to fix this particular problem, but he
didn't stop there. He has come to the conclusion that the audit
subsystem is beyond repair, so his patch marks the whole thing as being
broken, making it generally inaccessible. He cited a number of problems
beyond this security issue: it hurts performance even when it is not
being used, it is not (in his mind) reliable, it has problems with
various architectures, and "its approach to freeing memory is
terrifying." All told, Andy said, we're better off without it"
Account for extra IRQ load from such events like display rendering, touch events, etc...
that needs bandwidth raise for optimal performance
Signed-off-by: Diep Quynh <remilia.1505@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SamarV-121 <samarvispute121@gmail.com>
Using debuggers on clock scaling unit causes performance degradation
on production units. Let's disable it from now
Signed-off-by: Diep Quynh <remilia.1505@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SamarV-121 <samarvispute121@gmail.com>
Add cpu_lp_mask and cpu_perf_mask to represent the CPUs that belong to
each cluster in a dual-cluster, heterogeneous system.
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Signed-off-by: SamarV-121 <samarvispute121@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit c4409905cd6eb42cfd06126e9226b0150e05a715 ]
Re-execution after an emulation decode failure is only intended to
handle a case where two or vCPUs race to write a shadowed page, i.e.
we should never re-execute an instruction as part of MMIO emulation.
As handle_ept_misconfig() is only used for MMIO emulation, it should
pass EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE when using the emulator to skip an instr
in the fast-MMIO case where VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN is invalid.
And because the cr2 value passed to x86_emulate_instruction() is only
destined for use when retrying or reexecuting, we can simply call
emulate_instruction().
Fixes: d391f1207067 ("x86/kvm/vmx: do not use vm-exit instruction length
for fast MMIO when running nested")
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit 763802b53a427ed3cbd419dbba255c414fdd9e7c upstream.
Commit 3f8fd02b1bf1 ("mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in
__purge_vmap_area_lazy()") introduced a call to vmalloc_sync_all() in
the vunmap() code-path. While this change was necessary to maintain
correctness on x86-32-pae kernels, it also adds additional cycles for
architectures that don't need it.
Specifically on x86-64 with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y some people reported
severe performance regressions in micro-benchmarks because it now also
calls the x86-64 implementation of vmalloc_sync_all() on vunmap(). But
the vmalloc_sync_all() implementation on x86-64 is only needed for newly
created mappings.
To avoid the unnecessary work on x86-64 and to gain the performance
back, split up vmalloc_sync_all() into two functions:
* vmalloc_sync_mappings(), and
* vmalloc_sync_unmappings()
Most call-sites to vmalloc_sync_all() only care about new mappings being
synchronized. The only exception is the new call-site added in the
above mentioned commit.
Shile Zhang directed us to a report of an 80% regression in reaim
throughput.
Fixes: 3f8fd02b1bf1 ("mm/vmalloc: Sync unmappings in __purge_vmap_area_lazy()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> [GHES]
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191009124418.8286-1-joro@8bytes.org
Link: https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/lkp@lists.01.org/thread/4D3JPPHBNOSPFK2KEPC6KGKS6J25AIDB/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191113095530.228959-1-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 27f13774654ea6bd0b6fc9b97cce8d19e5735661 ]
'dma-ranges' in a PCI bridge node does correctly set dma masks for PCI
devices not described in the DT. Certain DRA7 platforms (e.g., DRA76)
has RAM above 32-bit boundary (accessible with LPAE config) though the
PCIe bridge will be able to access only 32-bits. Add 'dma-ranges'
property in PCIe RC DT nodes to indicate the host bridge can access
only 32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit cb0cc635c7a9fa8a3a0f75d4d896721819c63add ]
Selecting CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF results in the below warning from ld:
ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF' from `.btf.vmlinux.bin.o' being placed in section `.BTF'
Include .BTF section in vmlinux explicitly to fix the same.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220113132.857132-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
