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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2015-05-11 10:15:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-05-11 10:26:05 +0200
commitf21262b8e092a770e39fbd405cc18a0247c3af68 (patch)
tree0496ffb2b5581708263dbaa7b7f5ba0d958fc42d /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
parentf435e68fe74d41a34124e49c07ff9f9cd7954e35 (diff)
x86/alternatives: Switch AMD F15h and later to the P6 NOPs
Software optimization guides for both F15h and F16h cite those NOPs as the optimal ones. A microbenchmark confirms that actually even older families are better with the single-insn NOPs so switch to them for the alternatives. Cycles count below includes the loop overhead of the measurement but that overhead is the same with all runs. F10h, revE: ----------- Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions K8: 90 288.212282 cycles 66 90 288.220840 cycles 66 66 90 288.219447 cycles 66 66 66 90 288.223204 cycles 66 66 90 66 90 571.393424 cycles 66 66 90 66 66 90 571.374919 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 90 572.249281 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90 571.388651 cycles P6: 90 288.214193 cycles 66 90 288.225550 cycles 0f 1f 00 288.224441 cycles 0f 1f 40 00 288.225030 cycles 0f 1f 44 00 00 288.233558 cycles 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 324.792342 cycles 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 325.657462 cycles 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 430.246643 cycles F14h: ---- Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions K8: 90 510.404890 cycles 66 90 510.432117 cycles 66 66 90 510.561858 cycles 66 66 66 90 510.541865 cycles 66 66 90 66 90 1014.192782 cycles 66 66 90 66 66 90 1014.226546 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 90 1014.334299 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90 1014.381205 cycles P6: 90 510.436710 cycles 66 90 510.448229 cycles 0f 1f 00 510.545100 cycles 0f 1f 40 00 510.502792 cycles 0f 1f 44 00 00 510.589517 cycles 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 510.611462 cycles 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 511.166794 cycles 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 511.651641 cycles F15h: ----- Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions K8: 90 243.128396 cycles 66 90 243.129883 cycles 66 66 90 243.131631 cycles 66 66 66 90 242.499324 cycles 66 66 90 66 90 481.829083 cycles 66 66 90 66 66 90 481.884413 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 90 481.851446 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90 481.409220 cycles P6: 90 243.127026 cycles 66 90 243.130711 cycles 0f 1f 00 243.122747 cycles 0f 1f 40 00 242.497617 cycles 0f 1f 44 00 00 245.354461 cycles 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 361.930417 cycles 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 362.844944 cycles 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 480.514948 cycles F16h: ----- Running NOP tests, 1000 NOPs x 1000000 repetitions K8: 90 507.793298 cycles 66 90 507.789636 cycles 66 66 90 507.826490 cycles 66 66 66 90 507.859075 cycles 66 66 90 66 90 1008.663129 cycles 66 66 90 66 66 90 1008.696259 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 90 1008.692517 cycles 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90 1008.755399 cycles P6: 90 507.795232 cycles 66 90 507.794761 cycles 0f 1f 00 507.834901 cycles 0f 1f 40 00 507.822629 cycles 0f 1f 44 00 00 507.838493 cycles 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 507.908597 cycles 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 507.946417 cycles 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 507.954960 cycles Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431332153-18566-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c9
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index aef653193160..b0932c4341b3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -227,6 +227,15 @@ void __init arch_init_ideal_nops(void)
#endif
}
break;
+
+ case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
+ if (boot_cpu_data.x86 > 0xf) {
+ ideal_nops = p6_nops;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* fall through */
+
default:
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
ideal_nops = k8_nops;