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Linus Torvalds 47ee3f1dd9 x86: re-introduce support for ERMS copies for user space accesses 
I tried to streamline our user memory copy code fairly aggressively in
commit adfcf4231b ("x86: don't use REP_GOOD or ERMS for user memory
copies"), in order to then be able to clean up the code and inline the
modern FSRM case in commit 577e6a7fd5 ("x86: inline the 'rep movs' in
user copies for the FSRM case").

We had reports [1] of that causing regressions earlier with blogbench,
but that turned out to be a horrible benchmark for that case, and not a
sufficient reason for re-instating "rep movsb" on older machines.

However, now Eric Dumazet reported [2] a regression in performance that
seems to be a rather more real benchmark, where due to the removal of
"rep movs" a TCP stream over a 100Gbps network no longer reaches line
speed.

And it turns out that with the simplified the calling convention for the
non-FSRM case in commit 427fda2c8a ("x86: improve on the non-rep
'copy_user' function"), re-introducing the ERMS case is actually fairly
simple.

Of course, that "fairly simple" is glossing over several missteps due to
having to fight our assembler alternative code.  This code really wanted
to rewrite a conditional branch to have two different targets, but that
made objtool sufficiently unhappy that this instead just ended up doing
a choice between "jump to the unrolled loop, or use 'rep movsb'
directly".

Let's see if somebody finds a case where the kernel memory copies also
care (see commit 68674f94ff: "x86: don't use REP_GOOD or ERMS for
small memory copies").  But Eric does argue that the user copies are
special because networking tries to copy up to 32KB at a time, if
order-3 pages allocations are possible.

In-kernel memory copies are typically small, unless they are the special
"copy pages at a time" kind that still use "rep movs".

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305041446.71d46724-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANn89iKUbyrJ=r2+_kK+sb2ZSSHifFZ7QkPLDpAtkJ8v4WUumA@mail.gmail.com/ [2]
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: adfcf4231b ("x86: don't use REP_GOOD or ERMS for user memory copies")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-05-26 12:34:20 -07:00
arch x86: re-introduce support for ERMS copies for user space accesses 2023-05-26 12:34:20 -07:00
block block: Deny writable memory mapping if block is read-only 2023-05-19 20:17:10 -06:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto This push fixes the following problems: 2023-05-07 10:57:14 -07:00
Documentation four smb3 client server fixes (3 also for stable) and 3 patches related to move of fs/cifs and fs/ksmbd directories to common fs/smb parent directory 2023-05-25 19:23:18 -07:00
drivers parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.4-rc4: 2023-05-25 18:50:18 -07:00
fs four smb3 client server fixes (3 also for stable) and 3 patches related to move of fs/cifs and fs/ksmbd directories to common fs/smb parent directory 2023-05-25 19:23:18 -07:00
include module: error out early on concurrent load of the same module file 2023-05-25 17:07:57 -07:00
init Objtool changes for v6.4: 2023-04-28 14:02:54 -07:00
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ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel module: error out early on concurrent load of the same module file 2023-05-25 17:07:57 -07:00
lib Eight hotfixes. Four are cc:stable, the other four are for post-6.4 2023-05-18 17:06:04 -07:00
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rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Drop unnecessary fallthrough 2023-05-16 19:44:05 +02:00
scripts Locking changes in v6.4: 2023-05-05 12:56:55 -07:00
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usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races 2023-05-19 13:56:26 -04:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS four smb3 client server fixes (3 also for stable) and 3 patches related to move of fs/cifs and fs/ksmbd directories to common fs/smb parent directory 2023-05-25 19:23:18 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4-rc3 2023-05-21 14:05:48 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.