As this is running with MMU off, the CPU only does speculative
fetch for code in the same page.
Following the significant size reduction of TLB handler routines,
the side handlers can be brought back close to the main part,
ie in the same page.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch reworks the TLB Miss handler in order to not use r12
register, hence avoiding having to save it into SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2.
In the DAR Fixup code we can now use SPRN_M_TW, freeing
SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2.
Then SPRN_SPRG_SCRATCH2 may be used for something else in the future.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Today, on the 8xx the TLB handlers do SW tablewalk by doing all
the calculation in ASM, in order to match with the Linux page
table structure.
The 8xx offers hardware assistance which allows significant size
reduction of the TLB handlers, hence also reduces the time spent
in the handlers.
However, using this HW assistance implies some constraints on the
page table structure:
- Regardless of the main page size used (4k or 16k), the
level 1 table (PGD) contains 1024 entries and each PGD entry covers
a 4Mbytes area which is managed by a level 2 table (PTE) containing
also 1024 entries each describing a 4k page.
- 16k pages require 4 identifical entries in the L2 table
- 512k pages PTE have to be spread every 128 bytes in the L2 table
- 8M pages PTE are at the address pointed by the L1 entry and each
8M page require 2 identical entries in the PGD.
This patch modifies the TLB handlers to use HW assistance for 4K PAGES.
Before that patch, the mean time spent in TLB miss handlers is:
- ITLB miss: 80 ticks
- DTLB miss: 62 ticks
After that patch, the mean time spent in TLB miss handlers is:
- ITLB miss: 72 ticks
- DTLB miss: 54 ticks
So the improvement is 10% for ITLB and 13% for DTLB misses
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
In preparation of making use of hardware assistance in TLB handlers,
this patch temporarily disables 16K pages and hugepages. The reason
is that when using HW assistance in 4K pages mode, the linux model
fit with the HW model for 4K pages and 8M pages.
However for 16K pages and 512K mode some additional work is needed
to get linux model fit with HW model.
For the 8M pages, they will naturaly come back when we switch to
HW assistance, without any additional handling.
In order to keep the following patch smaller, the removal of the
current special handling for 8M pages gets removed here as well.
Therefore the 4K pages mode will be implemented first and without
support for 512k hugepages. Then the 512k hugepages will be brought
back. And the 16K pages will be implemented in the following step.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
In order to simplify time critical exceptions handling 8xx
specific SW perf counters, this patch moves the counters into
the beginning of memory. This is possible because .text is readable
and the counters are never modified outside of the handlers.
By doing this, we avoid having to set a second register with
the upper part of the address of the counters.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The 8xx TLB miss routines are patched when (de)activating
perf counters.
This patch uses the new patch_site functionality in order
to get a better code readability and avoid a label mess when
dumping the code with 'objdump -d'
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The 8xx TLB miss routines are patched at startup at several places.
This patch uses the new patch_site functionality in order
to get a better code readability and avoid a label mess when
dumping the code with 'objdump -d'
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This reverts commit 4f94b2c746.
That commit was buggy, as it used rlwinm instead of rlwimi.
Instead of fixing that bug, we revert the previous commit in order to
reduce the dependency between L1 entries and L2 entries
Fixes: 4f94b2c746 ("powerpc/8xx: Use L1 entry APG to handle _PAGE_ACCESSED for CONFIG_SWAP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
_PAGE_PRIVILEGED corresponds to the SH bit which doesn't protect
against user access but only disables ASID verification on kernel
accesses. User access is controlled with _PMD_USER flag.
Name it _PAGE_SH instead of _PAGE_PRIVILEGED
_PAGE_HUGE corresponds to the SPS bit which doesn't really tells
that's it is a huge page but only that it is not a 4k page.
Name it _PAGE_SPS instead of _PAGE_HUGE
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Files not using fixmap consts or functions don't need asm/fixmap.h
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
NULL pointers are pointers to user memory space. So user pagetable
has to be set in order to avoid random behaviour in case of NULL
pointer dereference, otherwise we may encounter random memory
access hence Machine Check Exception from TLB Miss handlers.
Set user pagetable as early as possible in order to properly
catch early kernel NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
New binutils generate the following warning
AS arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S: Assembler messages:
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S:916: Warning: invalid register expression
This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
When CONFIG_SWAP is set, the TLB miss handlers have to also take
into account _PAGE_ACCESSED flag. At the moment it is done by
anding _PAGE_ACCESSED into _PAGE_PRESENT using 3 instructions.
This patch uses APG for handling _PAGE_ACCESSED, allowing to
just copy _PAGE_ACCESSED bit into APG field, hence reducing the
action to a single instruction.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
As Linux kernel separates KERNEL and USER address spaces, there is
therefore no need to flag USER access at page level.
Today, the 8xx TLB handlers already handle user access in the L1 entry
through Access Protection Groups, it is then natural to move the user
access handling at PMD level once _PAGE_NA allows to handle PAGE_NONE
protection without _PAGE_USER
In the mean time, as we free up one bit in the PTE, we can use it to
include SPS (page size flag) in the PTE and avoid handling it at every
TLB miss hence removing special handling based on compiled page size.
For _PAGE_EXEC, we rework it to use PP PTE bits, avoiding the copy
of _PAGE_EXEC bit into the L1 entry. Unfortunatly we are not
able to put it at the correct location as it conflicts with
NA/RO/RW bits for data entries.
Upper bits of APG in L1 entry overlap with PMD base address. In
order to avoid having to filter that out, we set up all groups so that
upper bits can have any value.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
commit ac29c64089 ("powerpc/mm: Replace _PAGE_USER with
_PAGE_PRIVILEGED") introduced _PAGE_PRIVILEGED for BOOK3S/64
This patch generalises _PAGE_PRIVILEGED for all CPUs, allowing
to have either _PAGE_PRIVILEGED or _PAGE_USER or both.
PPC_8xx has a _PAGE_SHARED flag which is set for and only for
all non user pages. Lets rename it _PAGE_PRIVILEGED to remove
confusion as it has nothing to do with Linux shared pages.
On BookE, there's a _PAGE_BAP_SR which has to be set for kernel
pages: defining _PAGE_PRIVILEGED as _PAGE_BAP_SR will make
this generic
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
_PAGE_WRITETHRU is only used in:
* AMIGA_Z2RAM block driver which is never activated on powerPC
* Video/FB driver which is for PPC_PMAC
Therefore, no need to spend time in 8xx TLB miss handlers for
handling it.
And by removing it, we free up bit 20 which then avoids having
to clear it on each TLB miss.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
In TLB miss handlers, updating the perf counter is only useful
when performing a perf analysis. As it has a noticeable overhead,
let's only do it when needed.
In order to do so, the exit of the miss handlers will be patched
when starting/stopping 'perf': the first register restore
instruction of each exit point will be replaced by a jump to
the counting code.
Once this is done, CONFIG_PPC_8xx_PERF_EVENT becomes useless as
this feature doesn't add any overhead.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
EXCEPTION_PROLOG_0 and EXCEPTION_EPILOG_0 were added some
time ago in order to regroup the two mtspr/mfspr to SCRATCH0 and
SCRATCH1 and the mfcr/mtcr in order to ease entry and exit of
function not using the full EXCEPTION_PROLOG.
Since then, the mfcr/mtcr has been taken out, hence just leaving
the two mtspr/mfspr in the macro.
In order to improve readability of the exception functions, we
remove those two macros and copy back the two mtspr/mfspr instead.
As r10 and r11 are used for SCRATCH0 and SCRATCH1, lets also use
r12 for SCRATCH2. It will also improve the readability/maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CPU6 ERRATA affects only MPC860 revisions prior to C.0. Manufacturing
of those revisiosn was stopped in 1999-2000.
Therefore, it has been almost 20 years since this ERRATA has been
fixed in the silicon.
This patch removes the workaround for that ERRATA.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This reduces the DTLB miss handler hot path (user address path)
by one instruction by preserving r10.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
As stated in a comment in head_8xx.S, today we "Always pin the first
8 MB ITLB to prevent ITLB misses while mucking around with SRR0/SRR1
in asm".
This issue has just been cleared by the preceding patch, therefore
we can make this pinning optional (on by default) and independent
of DATA pinning.
This patch also makes pinning of IMMR independent of pinning of DATA.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The macro to check if an address is a kernel address or not is
not used anymore in DTLBmiss handler. It is used in ITLB miss handler
and in DTLB error handler. DTLB error handler is not a hot path, it
doesn't need such optimisation.
In order to simplify a following patch which will rework ITLB miss
handler, we remove the macros and reintroduce them inside the handler.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
head_8xx is dedicated to 8xx so no need to use macros that
depends on the CPU
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Use symbolic names for DSISR bits in DSI
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Since commit aa42c69c67 ("[POWERPC] Add support for FP emulation
for the e300c2 core"), program_check_exception() can be called for
math emulation. In that case, 'reason' is 0.
On the 8xx, there is a Software Emulation interrupt which is
called for all unimplemented and illegal instructions. This
interrupt calls SoftwareEmulation() which does almost the
same as program_check_exception() called with reason = 0.
The Software Emulation interrupt sets all reason bits to 0,
it is therefore possible to call program_check_exception()
directly from the interrupt handler.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This uses the newly defined constants for this rather than open-coded
numbers. There is a side effect on 64-bit which is to pass through
some of the new P9 bits which we didn't before.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
By filtering the relevant SRR1 bits in the assembly rather than
in do_page_fault() itself, we avoid a conditional branch (since we
already come from different path for data and instruction faults).
This will allow more simplifications later
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
This patch has been reworked since RFC version. In the RFC, this patch
was preceded by a patch clearing MSR RI for all PPC32 at all time at
exception prologs. Now MSR RI clearing is done only when this 8xx perf
events functionality is compiled in, it is therefore limited to 8xx
and merged inside this patch.
Other main changes have been to take into account detailed review from
Peter Zijlstra. The instructions counter has been reworked to behave
as a free running counter like the three other counters.
The 8xx has no PMU, however some events can be emulated by other means.
This patch implements the following events (as reported by 'perf list'):
cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event]
instructions [Hardware event]
dTLB-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
iTLB-load-misses [Hardware cache event]
'cycles' event is implemented using the timebase clock. Timebase clock
corresponds to CPU clock divided by 16, so number of cycles is
approximatly 16 times the number of TB ticks
On the 8xx, TLB misses are handled by software. It is therefore
easy to count all TLB misses each time the TLB miss exception is
called.
'instructions' is calculated by using instruction watchpoint counter.
This patch sets counter A to count instructions at address greater
than 0, hence we count all instructions executed while MSR RI bit is
set. The counter is set to the maximum which is 0xffff. Every 65535
instructions, debug instruction breakpoint exception fires. The
exception handler increments a counter in memory which then
represent the upper part of the instruction counter. We therefore
end up with a 48 bits counter. In order to avoid unnecessary overhead
while no perf event is active, this counter is started when the first
event referring to this counter is added, and the counter is stopped
when the last event referring to it is deleted. In order to properly
support breakpoint exceptions, MSR RI bit has to be unset in exception
epilogs in order to avoid breakpoint exceptions during critical
sections during changes to SRR0 and SRR1 would be problematic.
All counters are handled as free running counters.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
This patch implements HW breakpoint on the 8xx. The 8xx has
capability to manage HW breakpoints, which is slightly different
than BOOK3S:
1/ The breakpoint match doesn't trigger a DSI exception but a
dedicated data breakpoint exception.
2/ The breakpoint happens after the instruction has completed,
no need to single step or emulate the instruction,
3/ Matched address is not set in DAR but in BAR,
4/ DABR register doesn't exist, instead we have registers
LCTRL1, LCTRL2 and CMPx registers,
5/ The match on one comparator is not on a double word but
on a single word.
The patch does:
1/ Prepare the dedicated registers in call to __set_dabr(). In order
to emulate the double word handling of BOOK3S, comparator E is set to
DABR address value and comparator F to address + 4. Then breakpoint 1
is set to match comparator E or F,
2/ Skip the singlestepping stage when compiled for CONFIG_PPC_8xx,
3/ Implement the exception. In that exception, the matched address
is taken from SPRN_BAR and manage as if it was from SPRN_DAR.
4/ I/D TLB error exception routines perform a tlbie on bad TLBs. That
tlbie triggers the breakpoint exception when performed on the
breakpoint address. For this reason, the routine returns if the match
is from one of those two tlbie.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
8xx uses a two level page table with two different linux page size
support (4k and 16k). 8xx also support two different hugepage sizes
512k and 8M. In order to support them on linux we define two different
page table layout.
The size of pages is in the PGD entry, using PS field (bits 28-29):
00 : Small pages (4k or 16k)
01 : 512k pages
10 : reserved
11 : 8M pages
For 512K hugepage size a pgd entry have the below format
[<hugepte address >0101] . The hugepte table allocated will contain 8
entries pointing to 512K huge pte in 4k pages mode and 64 entries in
16k pages mode.
For 8M in 16k mode, a pgd entry have the below format
[<hugepte address >1101] . The hugepte table allocated will contain 8
entries pointing to 8M huge pte.
For 8M in 4k mode, multiple pgd entries point to the same hugepte
address and pgd entry will have the below format
[<hugepte address>1101]. The hugepte table allocated will only have one
entry.
For the time being, we do not support CPU15 ERRATA when HUGETLB is
selected
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (v3, for the generic bits)
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.
This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
working on a patch to fix this.
Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
change prototypes.
- Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
Piggin
- fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.
- preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
-ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
- CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell
- fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
ia64: move exports to definitions
sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
[sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
sparc: move exports to definitions
ppc: move exports to definitions
arm: move exports to definitions
s390: move exports to definitions
m68k: move exports to definitions
alpha: move exports to actual definitions
x86: move exports to actual definitions
...
User space DTLB miss represent approximatly 90% of TLB misses
so make it the shortest path.
Also remove an unneccessary double jump in FixupDAR
Before this patch, we spend 3.3 TB ticks in the handler for each
user address miss and 3.4 TB ticks for each kernel address miss
After this patch, we send 3.0 TB ticks in the handler for each
user address miss and 3.9 TB ticks for each kernel address miss
Taking into account that user misses represent 90% of the total,
this patch provides an improvement of approx. 9%
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
When all options are activated, there is not enough space for the
DTLBMiss handlers that handles IMMR area and linear RAM pages in
the exception area once we have added hugepage handling.
So lets move them after .0x2000
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
When the watchdog is in NMI mode, the system reset interrupt is
generated when the watchdog counter expires.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
CLR_TOP32() is defined as blank. Last useful instance of CLR_TOP32()
was removed by commit 40ef8cbc6d ("powerpc: Get 64-bit configs to
compile with ARCH=powerpc") in 2005.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CONFIG_PIN_TLB maps IMMR area and the first 24 Mbytes of memory.
In some circunstances it might be more interesting to not map
IMMR but map 32 Mbytes of memory instead.
Therefore we add config option CONFIG_PIN_TLB_IMMR to select if
IMMR shall be pinned or not, hence whether we pin 24 or 32 Mbytes of RAM
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
On recent kernels, with some debug options like for instance
CONFIG_LOCKDEP, the BSS requires more than 8M memory, allthough
the kernel code fits in the first 8M.
Today, it is necessary to activate CONFIG_PIN_TLB to get more than 8M
at startup, allthough pinning TLB is not necessary for that.
We could have inconditionaly mapped 16 or 24M bytes at startup
but some old hardware only have 8M and mapping non-existing RAM
would be an issue due to speculative accesses.
With the preceding patch however, the TLB entries are populated on
demand. By setting up the TLB miss handler to handle up to 24M until
the handler is patched for the entire memory space, it is possible
to allow access up to more memory without mapping non-existing RAM.
It is therefore not needed anymore to map memory data at all
at startup. It will be handled by the TLB miss handler.
One might still want to PIN the IMMR and the first 24M of RAM.
It is now possible to do it in the C memory initialisation
functions. In addition, we now know how much memory we have
when we do it, so we are able to adapt the pining to the
real amount of memory available. So boards with less than 24M
can now also benefit from PIN_TLB.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Instead of using the first level page table to define mappings for
the linear memory space, we can use direct mapping from the TLB
handling routines. This has several advantages:
* No need to read the tables at each TLB miss
* No issue in 16k pages mode where the 1st level table maps 64 Mbytes
The size of the available linear space is known at system startup.
In order to avoid data access at each TLB miss to know the memory
size, the TLB routine is patched at startup with the proper size
This patch provides a 10%-15% improvment of TLB miss handling for
kernel addresses
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Bootloader may have pinned some TLB entries so the kernel must
unpin them before flushing TLBs with tlbia otherwise pinned TLB
entries won't get flushed
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Once the linear memory space has been mapped with 8Mb pages, as
seen in the related commit, we get 11 millions DTLB missed during
the reference 600s period. 77% of the misses are on user addresses
and 23% are on kernel addresses (1 fourth for linear address space
and 3 fourth for virtual address space)
Traditionaly, each driver manages one computer board which has its
own components with its own memory maps.
But on embedded chips like the MPC8xx, the SOC has all registers
located in the same IO area.
When looking at ioremaps done during startup, we see that
many drivers are re-mapping small parts of the IMMR for their own use
and all those small pieces gets their own 4k page, amplifying the
number of TLB misses: in our system we get 0xff000000 mapped 31 times
and 0xff003000 mapped 9 times.
Even if each part of IMMR was mapped only once with 4k pages, it would
still be several small mappings towards linear area.
This patch maps the IMMR with a single 512k page.
With this patch applied, the number of DTLB misses during the 10 min
period is reduced to 11.8 millions for a duration of 5.8s, which
represents 2% of the non-idle time hence yet another 10% reduction.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
Memory: 124428K/131072K available (3748K kernel code, 188K rwdata,
648K rodata, 508K init, 290K bss, 6644K reserved)
Kernel virtual memory layout:
* 0xfffdf000..0xfffff000 : fixmap
* 0xfde00000..0xfe000000 : consistent mem
* 0xfddf6000..0xfde00000 : early ioremap
* 0xc9000000..0xfddf6000 : vmalloc & ioremap
SLUB: HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Today, IMMR is mapped 1:1 at startup
Mapping IMMR 1:1 is just wrong because it may overlap with another
area. On most mpc8xx boards it is OK as IMMR is set to 0xff000000
but for instance on EP88xC board, IMMR is at 0xfa200000 which
overlaps with VM ioremap area
This patch fixes the virtual address for remapping IMMR with the fixmap
regardless of the value of IMMR.
The size of IMMR area is 256kbytes (CPM at offset 0, security engine
at offset 128k) so a 512k page is enough
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
There is no real need to have set_context() in assembly.
Now that we have mtspr() handling CPU6 ERRATA directly, we
can rewrite set_context() in C language for easier maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
CPU6 ERRATA is now handled directly in mtspr(), so we can use the
standard set_dec() fonction in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
On a live running system (VoIP gateway for Air Trafic Control), over
a 10 minutes period (with 277s idle), we get 87 millions DTLB misses
and approximatly 35 secondes are spent in DTLB handler.
This represents 5.8% of the overall time and even 10.8% of the
non-idle time.
Among those 87 millions DTLB misses, 15% are on user addresses and
85% are on kernel addresses. And within the kernel addresses, 93%
are on addresses from the linear address space and only 7% are on
addresses from the virtual address space.
MPC8xx has no BATs but it has 8Mb page size. This patch implements
mapping of kernel RAM using 8Mb pages, on the same model as what is
done on the 40x.
In 4k pages mode, each PGD entry maps a 4Mb area: we map every two
entries to the same 8Mb physical page. In each second entry, we add
4Mb to the page physical address to ease life of the FixupDAR
routine. This is just ignored by HW.
In 16k pages mode, each PGD entry maps a 64Mb area: each PGD entry
will point to the first page of the area. The DTLB handler adds
the 3 bits from EPN to map the correct page.
With this patch applied, we now get only 13 millions TLB misses
during the 10 minutes period. The idle time has increased to 313s
and the overall time spent in DTLB miss handler is 6.3s, which
represents 1% of the overall time and 2.2% of non-idle time.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
We are spending between 40 and 160 cycles with a mean of 65 cycles in
the DTLB handling routine (measured with mftbl) so make it more
simple althought it adds one instruction.
With this modification, we get three registers available at all time,
which will help with following patch.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is activated, the initial TLB mapping gets
flushed to track accesses to wrong areas. Therefore, kernel addresses
will also generate ITLB misses.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
This patch implements PAGE_EXEC capability on the 8xx.
All pages PP exec bits are set to 000, which means Execute for
Supervisor and no Execute for User.
Then we use the APG to say whether accesses are according to Page
rules, "all Supervisor" rules (Exec for all) and
"all User" rules (Exec for noone)
Therefore, we define 4 APG groups. msb is _PAGE_EXEC,
lsb is _PAGE_USER. MI_AP is initialised as follows:
GP0 (00) => Not User, no exec => 11 (all accesses performed as user)
GP1 (01) => User but no exec => 11 (all accesses performed as user)
GP2 (10) => Not User, exec => 01 (rights according to page definition)
GP3 (11) => User, exec => 00 (all accesses performed as supervisor)
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[scottwood: comments: s/exec/data/ on data side, and s/pages/pages'/]
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
