linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc
Anton Blanchard a7a9dcd882 powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss
Early on in do_page_fault() we call store_updates_sp(), regardless of
the type of exception. For an instruction miss this doesn't make
sense, because we only use this information to detect if a data miss
is the result of a stack expansion instruction or not.

Worse still, it results in a data miss within every userspace
instruction miss handler, because we try and load the very instruction
we are about to install a pte for!

A simple exec microbenchmark runs 6% faster on POWER8 with this fix:

 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	unsigned long left = atol(argv[1]);
	char leftstr[16];

	if (left-- == 0)
		return 0;

	sprintf(leftstr, "%ld", left);
	execlp(argv[0], argv[0], leftstr, NULL);
	perror("exec failed\n");

	return 0;
}

Pass the number of iterations on the command line (eg 10000) and time
how long it takes to execute.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-03 23:33:05 +10:00
..
boot powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment 2017-03-08 10:39:32 +11:00
configs powerpc/configs: Re-enable POWER8 crc32c 2017-03-28 10:52:04 +11:00
crypto crypto: powerpc - Fix initialisation of crc32c context 2017-03-08 14:01:08 +08:00
include powerpc/book3s: Print task info if we take a machine check in user mode 2017-04-03 16:12:00 +10:00
kernel powerpc/book3s: Print task info if we take a machine check in user mode 2017-04-03 16:12:00 +10:00
kvm powerpc/mm/hash: Support 68 bit VA 2017-03-31 23:10:00 +11:00
lib powerpc fixes for 4.11 #3 2017-03-07 10:46:10 -08:00
math-emu Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mm powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss 2017-04-03 23:33:05 +10:00
net powerpc updates for 4.11 part 1. 2017-02-22 10:30:38 -08:00
oprofile ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage 2016-12-25 17:21:22 +01:00
perf powerpc/perf: Handle sdar_mode for marked event in power9 2017-03-09 13:34:54 +11:00
platforms powerpc/book3s: Print task info if we take a machine check in user mode 2017-04-03 16:12:00 +10:00
purgatory kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up 2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
scripts powerpc/ftrace: Add Kconfig & Make glue for mprofile-kernel 2016-03-07 14:53:56 +11:00
sysdev axonram: Fix gendisk handling 2017-03-08 10:55:40 -07:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: add debugfs entry for xmon 2017-03-28 10:52:01 +11:00
Kconfig powerpc: Move THREAD_SHIFT config to Kconfig 2017-03-20 19:02:49 +11:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/xmon: Enable disassembly files (compilation changes) 2017-02-15 20:02:42 +11:00
Makefile powerpc: Fix compiling a BE kernel with a powerpc64le toolchain 2017-03-03 11:24:50 +11:00
relocs_check.sh powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs 2016-09-22 14:46:31 +02:00