x86: avoid re-loading LDT in unrelated address spaces

Performance optimization.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index 0224c3637c73e68b4566124dd5d825034bc8c07a..21f2bae98c157730eff158c1f921ce3aa23882b3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-static void flush_ldt(void *null)
+static void flush_ldt(void *current_mm)
 {
-       if (current->active_mm)
+       if (current->active_mm == current_mm)
                load_LDT(&current->active_mm->context);
 }
 #endif
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static int alloc_ldt(mm_context_t *pc, int mincount, int reload)
                load_LDT(pc);
                mask = cpumask_of_cpu(smp_processor_id());
                if (!cpus_equal(current->mm->cpu_vm_mask, mask))
-                       smp_call_function(flush_ldt, NULL, 1, 1);
+                       smp_call_function(flush_ldt, current->mm, 1, 1);
                preempt_enable();
 #else
                load_LDT(pc);