flush_thread doesn't need to do a full page table walk in order to clear the
address space. It knows what the end result needs to be, so it can call unmap
directly.
This results in a 10-20% speedup in an exec from bash.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
void flush_thread_skas(void)
{
- force_flush_all();
+ void *data = NULL;
+ unsigned long end = proc_mm ? task_size : CONFIG_STUB_START;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = unmap(¤t->mm->context.skas.id, 0, end, 1, &data);
+ if(ret){
+ printk("flush_thread_skas - clearing address space failed, "
+ "err = %d\n", ret);
+ force_sig(SIGKILL, current);
+ }
+
switch_mm_skas(¤t->mm->context.skas.id);
}