Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 03:35:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-src-old@freebsd.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 cpu_switch.S pmap.c Message-ID: <201007080357.o683vSA4007382@repoman.freebsd.org>
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alc 2010-07-08 03:35:00 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified files: sys/amd64/amd64 cpu_switch.S pmap.c Log: SVN rev 209789 on 2010-07-08 03:35:00Z by alc Correctly maintain the per-cpu field "curpmap" on amd64 just like we do on i386. The consequences of not doing so on amd64 became apparent with the introduction of the COUNT_IPIS and COUNT_XINVLTLB_HITS options. Specifically, single-threaded applications were generating unnecessary IPIs to shoot-down the TLB on other processors. However, this is clearly nonsensical because a single-threaded application is only running on the current processor. The reason that this happens is that pmap_activate() is unable to properly update the old pmap's field "pm_active" without the correct "curpmap". So, in effect, stale bits in "pm_active" were leading pmap_protect(), pmap_remove(), pmap_remove_pages(), etc. to flush the TLB contents on some arbitrary processor that wasn't even running the same application. Reviewed by: kib MFC after: 3 weeks Revision Changes Path 1.171 +10 -12 src/sys/amd64/amd64/cpu_switch.S 1.706 +2 -0 src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c
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