Re: 2.6.18-rc6-mm1: GPF loop on early boot

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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >because userspace does not use it normally, while with %gs we'd switch 
> >between glibc's descriptor [which must be shadowed by the CPU] and the 
> >kernel's descriptor [which must be shadowed by the CPU too] - hence 
> >causing a constant reloading of the shadow register.
> >  
> 
> Well, that means the only operation which would be different would be 
> the pop %fs at the end, since only it would end up loading a null 
> selector.  All the other operations would presumably take just as 
> long.

yes - but loading a null selector is a special-case: you dont have to 
invalidate/reload the shadow, you just have to turn access off. This 
might or might not make a difference on modern CPUs (it makes a 
difference with older CPUs) - but it's worth a try nevertheless. You 
measured a 9 cycles degradation with the %gs method, we could recover 
some of that.

	Ingo
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