It's really not clear to me whether some of the changes to
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c should be applied without additional prerequisite
patches. Can you please advise? Thanks.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  [Feature] Cristal Ridge: x86 Process Context IDentifiers (PCID)
  support for OSV

Status in intel:
  New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Description:

  The mapping from virtual address to physical address will be stored in 
someplace called TLB,
  CPU need to occasionally flush TLB for different reasons, the flush will 
impact all process address mapping,
  with PCID support, the impact will be minimal, this will bring overcall 
performance boost.

  
  The commits comes from Andy Lutomirski(not Intel), which is quite recent, on 
July 5 2017.
  Part1:
  660da7c9228f x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems
  0790c9aad849 x86/mm: Add the 'nopcid' boot option to turn off PCID
  cba4671af755 x86/mm: Disable PCID on 32-bit kernels
  43858b4f25cf x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code
  94b1b03b519b x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking
  b0579ade7cd8 x86/mm: Track the TLB's tlb_gen and update the flushing algorithm
  f39681ed0f48 x86/mm: Give each mm TLB flush generation a unique ID
  Part2:
  10af6235e0d3 x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old 
TLB entries using PCID

  Target Release: 17.10
  Kernel: 4.14

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