[PATCH v2] powerpc/64s/radix: do not flush TLB when relaxing access
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Sun May 20 22:28:57 AEST 2018
Radix flushes the TLB when updating ptes to increase permissiveness
of protection (increase access authority). Book3S does not require
TLB flushing in this case, and it is not done on hash. This patch
avoids the flush for radix.
>From Power ISA v3.0B, p.1090:
Setting a Reference or Change Bit or Upgrading Access Authority
(PTE Subject to Atomic Hardware Updates)
If the only change being made to a valid PTE that is subject to
atomic hardware updates is to set the Reference or Change bit to 1
or to add access authorities, a simpler sequence suffices because
the translation hardware will refetch the PTE if an access is
attempted for which the only problems were reference and/or change
bits needing to be set or insufficient access authority.
The nest MMU on POWER9 does not re-fetch the PTE after such an access
attempt before faulting, so address spaces with a coprocessor
attached will continue to flush in these cases.
This reduces tlbies for a kernel compile workload from 1.28M to 0.95M,
tlbiels from 20.17M 19.68M.
fork --fork --exec benchmark improved 2.77% (12000->12300).
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
Oops I missed this patch, it's supposed to go as the first patch in
the "Various TLB and PTE improvements" patch.
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c | 10 +++++++---
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
index 518518fb7c45..994492453f0e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
@@ -31,16 +31,20 @@ int (*register_process_table)(unsigned long base, unsigned long page_size,
int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t entry, int dirty)
{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
int changed;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
WARN_ON(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp) && !pmd_devmap(*pmdp));
- assert_spin_locked(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
+ assert_spin_locked(&mm->page_table_lock);
#endif
changed = !pmd_same(*(pmdp), entry);
if (changed) {
- __ptep_set_access_flags(vma->vm_mm, pmdp_ptep(pmdp),
+ __ptep_set_access_flags(mm, pmdp_ptep(pmdp),
pmd_pte(entry), address);
- flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+ /* See ptep_set_access_flags comments */
+ if (atomic_read(&mm->context.copros) > 0)
+ flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address,
+ address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
}
return changed;
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
index 9f361ae571e9..525ec4656a55 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -217,14 +217,37 @@ void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pte_t *ptep, pte_t entry, int dirty)
{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
int changed;
+
entry = set_access_flags_filter(entry, vma, dirty);
changed = !pte_same(*(ptep), entry);
if (changed) {
if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
- assert_pte_locked(vma->vm_mm, address);
- __ptep_set_access_flags(vma->vm_mm, ptep, entry, address);
- flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+ assert_pte_locked(mm, address);
+ __ptep_set_access_flags(mm, ptep, entry, address);
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)) {
+ /*
+ * Book3S does not require a TLB flush when relaxing
+ * access restrictions because the core MMU will reload
+ * the pte after taking an access fault. However the
+ * NMMU on POWER9 does not re-load the pte, so flush
+ * if we have a coprocessor attached to this address
+ * space.
+ *
+ * This could be further refined and pushed out to
+ * NMMU drivers so TLBIEs are only done for NMMU
+ * faults, but this is a more minimal fix. The NMMU
+ * fault handler does a get_user_pages_remote or
+ * similar to bring the page tables in, and this
+ * flush_tlb_page will do a global TLBIE because the
+ * coprocessor is attached to the address space.
+ */
+ if (atomic_read(&mm->context.copros) > 0)
+ flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+ } else {
+ flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+ }
}
return changed;
}
--
2.17.0
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