x86/ioperm: Add bitmap sequence number

Add a globally unique sequence number which is incremented when ioperm() is
changing the I/O bitmap of a task. Store the new sequence number in the
io_bitmap structure and compare it with the sequence number of the I/O
bitmap which was last loaded on a CPU. Only update the bitmap if the
sequence is different.

That should further reduce the overhead of I/O bitmap scheduling when there
are only a few I/O bitmap users on the system.

The 64bit sequence counter is sufficient. A wraparound of the sequence
counter assuming an ioperm() call every nanosecond would require about 584
years of uptime.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 3aee167246f7..79dd544bb974 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1862,6 +1862,7 @@ void cpu_init(void)
 	tss_setup_ist(tss);
 	tss->x86_tss.io_bitmap_base = IO_BITMAP_OFFSET_INVALID;
 	tss->io_bitmap.prev_max = 0;
+	tss->io_bitmap.prev_sequence = 0;
 	memset(tss->io_bitmap.bitmap, 0xff, sizeof(tss->io_bitmap.bitmap));
 	set_tss_desc(cpu, &get_cpu_entry_area(cpu)->tss.x86_tss);