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[2/4] 8xx: Avoid testing for kernel space in ITLB Miss.

Message ID 1267172983-28721-3-git-send-email-Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Commit 4afb0be7ccda0ca551cc37572bab74ba4a3c18dd
Delegated to: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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Joakim Tjernlund Feb. 26, 2010, 8:29 a.m. UTC 
Only modules will cause ITLB Misses as we always pin
the first 8MB of kernel memory.
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 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Benjamin Herrenschmidt March 16, 2010, 9:19 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:29 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> +       /* Only modules will cause ITLB Misses as we always
> +        * pin the first 8MB of kernel memory */
>         andi.   r11, r10, 0x0800        /* Address >= 0x80000000 */
>         beq     3f
>         lis     r11, swapper_pg_dir@h
>         ori     r11, r11, swapper_pg_dir@l
>         rlwimi  r10, r11, 0, 2, 19
>  3:
> +#endif

You can optimize that further I think...

You can probably just remove the code above, and add something to
do_page_fault() that lazily copies the kernel PGD entries from
swapper_pg_dir to the app pgdir. (You can even pre-fill that when
creating a new mm).

Cheers,
Ben.
Joakim Tjernlund March 17, 2010, 7:35 a.m. UTC | #2 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 2010/03/16 22:19:36:
>
> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:29 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> > +       /* Only modules will cause ITLB Misses as we always
> > +        * pin the first 8MB of kernel memory */
> >         andi.   r11, r10, 0x0800        /* Address >= 0x80000000 */
> >         beq     3f
> >         lis     r11, swapper_pg_dir@h
> >         ori     r11, r11, swapper_pg_dir@l
> >         rlwimi  r10, r11, 0, 2, 19
> >  3:
> > +#endif
>
> You can optimize that further I think...
>
> You can probably just remove the code above, and add something to
> do_page_fault() that lazily copies the kernel PGD entries from
> swapper_pg_dir to the app pgdir. (You can even pre-fill that when
> creating a new mm).

I did look at this at some point and could not figure out how
to do this.
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index ecc4a02..84ca1d9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -318,12 +318,16 @@  InstructionTLBMiss:
 	/* If we are faulting a kernel address, we have to use the
 	 * kernel page tables.
 	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+	/* Only modules will cause ITLB Misses as we always
+	 * pin the first 8MB of kernel memory */
 	andi.	r11, r10, 0x0800	/* Address >= 0x80000000 */
 	beq	3f
 	lis	r11, swapper_pg_dir@h
 	ori	r11, r11, swapper_pg_dir@l
 	rlwimi	r10, r11, 0, 2, 19
 3:
+#endif
 	lwz	r11, 0(r10)	/* Get the level 1 entry */
 	rlwinm.	r10, r11,0,0,19	/* Extract page descriptor page address */
 	beq	2f		/* If zero, don't try to find a pte */