Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare second round of input updates for 5.3 merge window.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
index 43c029cdc3fe..0a3c4cab39db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static inline void native_write_cr8(unsigned long val)
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
-static inline u32 __read_pkru(void)
+static inline u32 rdpkru(void)
 {
 	u32 ecx = 0;
 	u32 edx, pkru;
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static inline u32 __read_pkru(void)
 	return pkru;
 }
 
-static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru)
+static inline void wrpkru(u32 pkru)
 {
 	u32 ecx = 0, edx = 0;
 
@@ -118,8 +118,21 @@ static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru)
 	asm volatile(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xef\n\t"
 		     : : "a" (pkru), "c"(ecx), "d"(edx));
 }
+
+static inline void __write_pkru(u32 pkru)
+{
+	/*
+	 * WRPKRU is relatively expensive compared to RDPKRU.
+	 * Avoid WRPKRU when it would not change the value.
+	 */
+	if (pkru == rdpkru())
+		return;
+
+	wrpkru(pkru);
+}
+
 #else
-static inline u32 __read_pkru(void)
+static inline u32 rdpkru(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }