CAT has happened, WBINDV is bad (even before CAT blowing away the entire cache on a multi-core platform wasn't nice), try not to use it ever.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 18 ++---------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -319,26 +319,12 @@ static void cpa_flush_array(unsigned lon int in_flags, struct page **pages) { unsigned int i, level; -#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT - /* - * Avoid wbinvd() because it causes latencies on all CPUs, - * regardless of any CPU isolation that may be in effect. - * - * This should be extended for CAT enabled systems independent of - * PREEMPT because wbinvd() does not respect the CAT partitions and - * this is exposed to unpriviledged users through the graphics - * subsystem. - */ - unsigned long do_wbinvd = 0; -#else - unsigned long do_wbinvd = cache && numpages >= 1024; /* 4M threshold */ -#endif BUG_ON(irqs_disabled() && !early_boot_irqs_disabled); - on_each_cpu(__cpa_flush_all, (void *) do_wbinvd, 1); + flush_tlb_all(); - if (!cache || do_wbinvd) + if (!cache) return; /*