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  1. 12 Nov, 2017 10 commits
  3. 11 Nov, 2017 18 commits
  5. 10 Nov, 2017 8 commits
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64: Set DSCR default initially from SPR · 1696d0fb
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      Take the DSCR value set by firmware as the dscr_default value,
rather than zero.

POWER9 recommends DSCR default to a non-zero value.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrom: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Make record_spr_defaults() __init]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      1696d0fb
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/powernv: Avoid waiting for secondary hold spinloop with OPAL · 339a3293
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      OPAL boot does not insert secondaries at 0x60 to wait at the secondary
hold spinloop. Instead they are started later, and inserted at
generic_secondary_smp_init(), which is after the secondary hold
spinloop.

Avoid waiting on this spinloop when booting with OPAL firmware. This
wait always times out that case.

This saves 100ms boot time on powernv, and 10s of seconds of real time
when booting on the simulator in SMP.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      339a3293
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64s/radix: Improve TLB flushing for page table freeing · 0b2f5a8a
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      Unmaps that free page tables always flush the entire PID, which is
sub-optimal. Provide TLB range flushing with an additional PWC flush
that can be use for va range invalidations with PWC flush.

     Time to munmap N pages of memory including last level page table
     teardown (after mmap, touch), local invalidate:
     N           1       2      4      8     16     32     64
     vanilla  3.2us  3.3us  3.4us  3.6us  4.1us  5.2us  7.2us
     patched  1.4us  1.5us  1.7us  1.9us  2.6us  3.7us  6.2us

     Global invalidate:
     N           1       2      4      8     16      32     64
     vanilla  2.2us  2.3us  2.4us  2.6us  3.2us   4.1us  6.2us
     patched  2.1us  2.5us  3.4us  5.2us  8.7us  15.7us  6.2us

Local invalidates get much better across the board. Global ones have
the same issue where multiple tlbies for va flush do get slower than
the single tlbie to invalidate the PID. None of this test captures
the TLB benefits of avoiding killing everything.

Global gets worse, but it is brought in to line with global invalidate
for munmap()s that do not free page tables.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      0b2f5a8a
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64s/radix: Introduce local single page ceiling for TLB range flush · f6f27951
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      The single page flush ceiling is the cut-off point at which we switch
from invalidating individual pages, to invalidating the entire process
address space in response to a range flush.

Introduce a local variant of this heuristic because local and global
tlbie have significantly different properties:
- Local tlbiel requires 128 instructions to invalidate a PID, global
  tlbie only 1 instruction.
- Global tlbie instructions are expensive broadcast operations.

The local ceiling has been made much higher, 2x the number of
instructions required to invalidate the entire PID (i.e., 256 pages).

     Time to mprotect N pages of memory (after mmap, touch), local invalidate:
     N           32     34      64     128     256     512
     vanilla  7.4us  9.0us  14.6us  26.4us  50.2us  98.3us
     patched  7.4us  7.8us  13.8us  26.4us  51.9us  98.3us

The behaviour of both is identical at N=32 and N=512. Between there,
the vanilla kernel does a PID invalidate and the patched kernel does
a va range invalidate.

At N=128, these require the same number of tlbiel instructions, so
the patched version can be sen to be cheaper when < 128, and more
expensive when > 128. However this does not well capture the cost
of invalidated TLB.

The additional cost at 256 pages does not seem prohibitive. It may
be the case that increasing the limit further would continue to be
beneficial to avoid invalidating all of the process's TLB entries.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      f6f27951
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64s/radix: Optimize flush_tlb_range · cbf09c83
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      Currently for radix, flush_tlb_range flushes the entire PID, because
the Linux mm code does not tell us about page size here for THP vs
regular pages. This is quite sub-optimal for small mremap / mprotect
/ change_protection.

So implement va range flushes with two flush passes, one for each
page size (regular and THP). The second flush has an order of matnitude
fewer tlbie instructions than the first, so it is a relatively small
additional cost.

There is still room for improvement here with some changes to generic
APIs, particularly if there are mostly THP pages to be invalidated,
the small page flushes could be reduced.

Time to mprotect 1 page of memory (after mmap, touch):
vanilla 2.9us   1.8us
patched 1.2us   1.6us

Time to mprotect 30 pages of memory (after mmap, touch):
vanilla 8.2us   7.2us
patched 6.9us   17.9us

Time to mprotect 34 pages of memory (after mmap, touch):
vanilla 9.1us   8.0us
patched 9.0us   8.0us

34 pages is the point at which the invalidation switches from va
to entire PID, which tlbie can do in a single instruction. This is
why in the case of 30 pages, the new code runs slower for this test.
This is a deliberate tradeoff already present in the unmap and THP
promotion code, the idea is that the benefit from avoiding flushing
entire TLB for this PID on all threads in the system.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      cbf09c83
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64s/radix: Implement _tlbie(l)_va_range flush functions · d665767e
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      Move the barriers and range iteration down into the _tlbie* level,
which improves readability.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      d665767e
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64s/radix: Optimize TLB range flush barriers · 14001c60
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      Short range flushes issue a sequences of tlbie(l) instructions for
individual effective addresses. These do not all require individual
barrier sequences, only one covering all tlbie(l) instructions.

Commit f7327e0b ("powerpc/mm/radix: Remove unnecessary ptesync")
made a similar optimization for tlbiel for PID flushing.

For tlbie, the ISA says:

    The tlbsync instruction provides an ordering function for the
    effects of all tlbie instructions executed by the thread executing
    the tlbsync instruction, with respect to the memory barrier
    created by a subsequent ptesync instruction executed by the same
    thread.

Time to munmap 30 pages of memory (after mmap, touch):
         local   global
vanilla  10.9us  22.3us
patched   3.4us  14.4us
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      14001c60
    • Michael Ellerman's avatar
      Merge branch 'fixes' into next · a54c61f4
      Michael Ellerman authored 
      We have some dependencies & conflicts between patches in fixes and
things to go in next, both in the radix TLB flush code and the IMC PMU
driver. So merge fixes into next.
      a54c61f4
  7. 09 Nov, 2017 1 commit
  9. 08 Nov, 2017 1 commit
    • Balbir Singh's avatar
      powerpc/xmon: Support dumping software pagetables · 80eff6c4
      Balbir Singh authored 
      It would be nice to be able to dump page tables in a particular
context.

eg: dumping vmalloc space:

  0:mon> dv 0xd00037fffff00000
  pgd  @ 0xc0000000017c0000
  pgdp @ 0xc0000000017c00d8 = 0x00000000f10b1000
  pudp @ 0xc0000000f10b13f8 = 0x00000000f10d0000
  pmdp @ 0xc0000000f10d1ff8 = 0x00000000f1102000
  ptep @ 0xc0000000f1102780 = 0xc0000000f1ba018e
  Maps physical address = 0x00000000f1ba0000
  Flags = Accessed Dirty Read Write

This patch does not replicate the complex code of dump_pagetable and
has no support for bolted linear mapping, thats why I've it's called
dump virtual page table support. The format of the PTE can be expanded
even further to add more useful information about the flags in the PTE
if required.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
[mpe: Bike shed the output format, show the pgdir, fix build failures]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      80eff6c4
  11. 07 Nov, 2017 2 commits
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