Commit a18ff1bd authored by Jeff Dike's avatar Jeff Dike Committed by Linus Torvalds

uml: speed up exec

flush_thread doesn't need to do a full page table walk in order to clear the
address space.  It knows what the end result needs to be, so it can call unmap
directly.

This results in a 10-20% speedup in an exec from bash.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 57ac895a
......@@ -17,7 +17,17 @@
void flush_thread_skas(void)
{
force_flush_all();
void *data = NULL;
unsigned long end = proc_mm ? task_size : CONFIG_STUB_START;
int ret;
ret = unmap(&current->mm->context.skas.id, 0, end, 1, &data);
if(ret){
printk("flush_thread_skas - clearing address space failed, "
"err = %d\n", ret);
force_sig(SIGKILL, current);
}
switch_mm_skas(&current->mm->context.skas.id);
}
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