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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/25] x86: Make SMAP 64-bit only
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On March 21, 2019 10:25:05 AM PDT, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
>On 3/18/19 7:10 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:51 AM Peter Zijlstra
><peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> How about I do a patch that schedules EFLAGS for both 32bit and
>64bit,
>>> mark this for backporting to infinity.
>>>
>>> And then at the end, after the objtool-ac bits land, I do a patch
>>> removing the EFLAGS scheduling for x86_64.
>>
>> Sounds sane to me.
>>
>> And we can make it AC-conditional if it's actually shown to be
>visible
>> from a performance standpoint.
>>
>> But iirc pushf/popf isn't really that expensive - in fact I think
>it's
>> pretty cheap when system flags don't change.
>
>I did not see evidence of this. In my testing,
>POPF is always ~20 cycles, even if popped flags are identical to
>current
>state of flags.

I think you will find that if you change system flags it is much slower.
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