upatepp can get called for a nohpte fault when we find from the linux
page table that the translation was hashed before. In that case
we are sure that there is no existing translation, hence we could
avoid doing tlbie.
We could possibly race with a parallel fault filling the TLB. But
that should be ok because updatepp is only ever relaxing permissions.
We also look at linux pte permission bits when filling hash pte
permission bits. We also hold the linux pte busy bits while
inserting/updating a hashpte entry, hence a paralle update of
linux pte is not possible. On the other hand mprotect involves
ptep_modify_prot_start which cause a hpte invalidate and not updatepp.
Performance number:
We use randbox_access_bench written by Anton.
Kernel with THP disabled and smaller hash page table size.
86.60% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .native_hpte_updatepp
2.10% random_access_b random_access_bench [.] doit
1.99% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .do_raw_spin_lock
1.85% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .native_hpte_insert
1.26% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .native_flush_hash_range
1.18% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__delay
0.69% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .native_hpte_remove
0.37% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .clear_user_page
0.34% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__hash_page_64K
0.32% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fast_exception_return
0.30% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .hash_page_mm
With Fix:
27.54% random_access_b random_access_bench [.] doit
22.90% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .native_hpte_insert
5.76% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .native_hpte_remove
5.20% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] fast_exception_return
5.12% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .__hash_page_64K
4.80% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .hash_page_mm
3.31% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] data_access_common
1.84% random_access_b [kernel.kallsyms] [k] .trace_hardirqs_on_caller
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
In certain circumstances the PSL (Power Service Layer, which provides
translation services for CXL hardware) can send an interrupt for a
segment miss that the kernel has already handled. This can happen if
multiple translations for the same segment are queued in the PSL before
the kernel has restarted the first translation.
The CXL driver does not expect this situation and does not check if a
segment had already been handled. This could cause a duplicate segment
table entry which in turn caused a PSL error taking down the card.
This patch fixes the issue by checking for existing entries in the
segment table that match the segment we are trying to insert, so as to
avoid inserting duplicate entries.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This moves the segment table hash calculation from cxl_load_segment()
into find_free_sste() since that is the only place it is actually used.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch simplifies the process of finding a free segment table entry
by disabling the secondary hash. This reduces the number of possible
entries in the segment table for a given address from 16 to 8.
Due to the large segment sizes we use it is extremely unlikely that the
secondary hash would ever have been used in practice, so this should not
have any negative impacts and may even improve performance due to the
reduced number of comparisons that software & hardware need to perform.
This patch clears the SC bit in the hardware's state register
(CXL_PSL_SR_An) to disable the secondary hash in the hardware since we
can no longer fill out entries using it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This is the core of the cxl driver.
It adds support for using cxl cards in the powernv environment only (ie POWER8
bare metal). It allows access to cxl accelerators by userspace using the
/dev/cxl/afuM.N char devices.
The kernel driver has no knowledge of the function implemented by the
accelerator. It provides services to userspace via the /dev/cxl/afuM.N
devices. When a program opens this device and runs the start work IOCTL, the
accelerator will have coherent access to that processes memory using the same
virtual addresses. That process may mmap the device to access any MMIO space
the accelerator provides. Also, reads on the device will allow interrupts to
be received. These services are further documented in a later patch in
Documentation/powerpc/cxl.txt.
Documentation of the cxl hardware architecture and userspace API is provided in
subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
