Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
  1. Jun 03, 2018
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      powerpc/64s/radix: avoid ptesync after set_pte and ptep_set_access_flags · f1cb8f9b
      Nicholas Piggin authored
      
      The ISA suggests ptesync after setting a pte, to prevent a table walk
      initiated by a subsequent access from missing that store and causing a
      spurious fault. This is an architectual allowance that allows an
      implementation's page table walker to be incoherent with the store
      queue.
      
      However there is no correctness problem in taking a spurious fault in
      userspace -- the kernel copes with these at any time, so the updated
      pte will be found eventually. Spurious kernel faults on vmap memory
      must be avoided, so a ptesync is put into flush_cache_vmap.
      
      On POWER9 so far I have not found a measurable window where this can
      result in more minor faults, so as an optimisation, remove the costly
      ptesync from pte updates. If an implementation benefits from ptesync,
      it would be better to add it back in update_mmu_cache, so it's not
      done for things like fork(2).
      
      fork --fork --exec benchmark improved 5.2% (12400->13100).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      f1cb8f9b
  2. Mar 20, 2018
  3. Aug 01, 2016
  4. Mar 11, 2016
  5. Mar 05, 2016
  6. Aug 08, 2015
  7. Feb 05, 2015
  8. Aug 14, 2013
  9. Sep 12, 2012
  10. Nov 26, 2009
    • Ilya Loginov's avatar
      block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages · 2d4dc890
      Ilya Loginov authored
      
      Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request.  So,
      this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
      the dcache or with dcache aliases.  The patch fixes this.
      
      The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
      pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
      flush_dcache_page() is a no-op.  Every architecture was provided with this
      flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
      equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
      
      See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
      on LKML for more information.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIlya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
      Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      2d4dc890
  11. Aug 04, 2008
  12. Apr 12, 2007
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [POWERPC] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC for 32-bit · 88df6e90
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      
      Here's an implementation of DEBUG_PAGEALLOC for ppc32. It disables BAT
      mapping and is only tested with Hash table based processor though it
      shouldn't be too hard to adapt it to others.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      
       arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug       |    9 ++++++
       arch/powerpc/mm/init_32.c        |    4 +++
       arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c     |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
       arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c     |    4 ++-
       include/asm-powerpc/cacheflush.h |    6 ++++
       5 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      88df6e90
  13. Dec 13, 2006
  14. Nov 10, 2005
    • David Gibson's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge cacheflush.h and cache.h · 26ef5c09
      David Gibson authored
      
      The ppc32 and ppc64 versions of cacheflush.h were almost identical.
      The two versions of cache.h are fairly similar, except for a bunch of
      register definitions in the ppc32 version which probably belong better
      elsewhere.  This patch, therefore, merges both headers.  Notable
      points:
      	- there are several functions in cacheflush.h which exist only
      on ppc32 or only on ppc64.  These are handled by #ifdef for now, but
      these should probably be consolidated, along with the actual code
      behind them later.
      	- Confusingly, both ppc32 and ppc64 have a
      flush_dcache_range(), but they're subtly different: it uses dcbf on
      ppc32 and dcbst on ppc64, ppc64 has a flush_inval_dcache_range() which
      uses dcbf.  These too should be merged and consolidated later.
      	- Also flush_dcache_range() was defined in cacheflush.h on
      ppc64, and in cache.h on ppc32.  In the merged version it's in
      cacheflush.h
      	- On ppc32 flush_icache_range() is a normal function from
      misc.S.  On ppc64, it was wrapper, testing a feature bit before
      calling __flush_icache_range() which does the actual flush.  This
      patch takes the ppc64 approach, which amounts to no change on ppc32,
      since CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE will never be set there, but does mean
      renaming flush_icache_range() to __flush_icache_range() in
      arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S and arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
      	- The PReP register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to
      arch/ppc/platforms/prep_setup.c
      	- The 8xx register info from asm-ppc/cache.h has moved to a
      new asm-powerpc/reg_8xx.h, included from reg.h
      	- flush_dcache_all() was defined on ppc32 (only), but was
      never called (although it was exported).  Thus this patch removes it
      from cacheflush.h and from ARCH=powerpc (misc_32.S) entirely.  It's
      left in ARCH=ppc for now, with the prototype moved to ppc_ksyms.c.
      
      Built for Walnut (ARCH=ppc), 32-bit multiplatform (pmac, CHRP and PReP
      ARCH=ppc, pmac and CHRP ARCH=powerpc).  Built and booted on POWER5
      LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).
      
      Built for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc).  Built and
      booted on POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).  Built and booted
      on G5 (ARCH=powerpc)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      26ef5c09
  15. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      v2.6.12-rc2
      1da177e4
Loading