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authorHuang, Xiaolan <xiaolan.huang@intel.com>2008-05-15 10:18:41 +0800
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2008-05-15 09:54:19 -0700
commit839052d27e8db0c1545256fe5827abcd00fb51c5 (patch)
tree003839d444943ba8f125846e776b068721da2c8f /arch/ia64/mm
parent3fb2c74ee20b77affd494c6b8ce7928d0ebbb62e (diff)
[IA64] fix personality(PER_LINUX32) performance issue
The patch aims to fix a performance issue for the syscall personality(PER_LINUX32). On IA-64 box, the syscall personality (PER_LINUX32) has poor performance because it failed to find the Linux/x86 execution domain. Then it tried to load the kernel module however it failed always and it used the default execution domain PER_LINUX instead. Requesting kernel modules is very expensive. It caused the performance issue. (see the function lookup_exec_domain in kernel/exec_domain.c). To resolve the issue, execution domain Linux/x86 is always registered in initialization time for IA-64 architecture. Signed-off-by: Xiaolan Huang <xiaolan.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/mm/init.c25
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
index fc6c6636ffda..200100ea7610 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
@@ -719,3 +719,28 @@ out:
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(remove_memory);
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
#endif
+
+/*
+ * Even when CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT is not enabled it is
+ * useful to have the Linux/x86 domain registered to
+ * avoid an attempted module load when emulators call
+ * personality(PER_LINUX32). This saves several milliseconds
+ * on each such call.
+ */
+static struct exec_domain ia32_exec_domain;
+
+static int __init
+per_linux32_init(void)
+{
+ ia32_exec_domain.name = "Linux/x86";
+ ia32_exec_domain.handler = NULL;
+ ia32_exec_domain.pers_low = PER_LINUX32;
+ ia32_exec_domain.pers_high = PER_LINUX32;
+ ia32_exec_domain.signal_map = default_exec_domain.signal_map;
+ ia32_exec_domain.signal_invmap = default_exec_domain.signal_invmap;
+ register_exec_domain(&ia32_exec_domain);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+__initcall(per_linux32_init);