kernel/linux.git/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h, branch linux-7.1.y

treewide: provide a generic clear_user_page() variant

2026-01-21T03:24:39+00:00

Patch series "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges", v11. This series adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. The series improves on the current discontiguous clearing approach in two ways: - clear pages in a contiguous fashion. - use batched clearing via clear_pages() wherever exposed. The first is useful because it allows us to make much better use of hardware prefetchers. The second, enables advertising the real extent to the processor. Where specific instructions support it (ex. string instructions on x86; "mops" on arm64 etc), a processor can optimize based on this because, instead of seeing a sequence of 8-byte stores, or a sequence of 4KB pages, it sees a larger unit being operated on. For instance, AMD Zen uarchs (for extents larger than LLC-size) switch to a mode where they start eliding cacheline allocation. This is helpful not just because it results in higher bandwidth, but also because now the cache is not evicting useful cachelines and replacing them with zeroes. Demand faulting a 64GB region shows performance improvement: $ perf bench mem mmap -p $pg-sz -f demand -s 64GB -l 5 baseline +series (GBps +- %stdev) (GBps +- %stdev) pg-sz=2MB 11.76 +- 1.10% 25.34 +- 1.18% [*] +115.47% preempt=* pg-sz=1GB 24.85 +- 2.41% 39.22 +- 2.32% + 57.82% preempt=none|voluntary pg-sz=1GB (similar) 52.73 +- 0.20% [#] +112.19% preempt=full|lazy [*] This improvement is because switching to sequential clearing allows the hardware prefetchers to do a much better job. [#] For pg-sz=1GB a large part of the improvement is because of the cacheline elision mentioned above. preempt=full|lazy improves upon that because, not needing explicit invocations of cond_resched() to ensure reasonable preemption latency, it can clear the full extent as a single unit. In comparison the maximum extent used for preempt=none|voluntary is PROCESS_PAGES_NON_PREEMPT_BATCH (32MB). When provided the full extent the processor forgoes allocating cachelines on this path almost entirely. (The hope is that eventually, in the fullness of time, the lazy preemption model will be able to do the same job that none or voluntary models are used for, allowing us to do away with cond_resched().) Raghavendra also tested previous version of the series on AMD Genoa and sees similar improvement [1] with preempt=lazy. $ perf bench mem map -p $page-size -f populate -s 64GB -l 10 base patched change pg-sz=2MB 12.731939 GB/sec 26.304263 GB/sec 106.6% pg-sz=1GB 26.232423 GB/sec 61.174836 GB/sec 133.2% This patch (of 8): Let's drop all variants that effectively map to clear_page() and provide it in a generic variant instead. We'll use the macro clear_user_page to indicate whether an architecture provides it's own variant. Also, clear_user_page() is only called from the generic variant of clear_user_highpage(), so define it only if the architecture does not provide a clear_user_highpage(). And, for simplicity define it in linux/highmem.h. Note that for parisc, clear_page() and clear_user_page() map to clear_page_asm(), so we can just get rid of the custom clear_user_page() implementation. There is a clear_user_page_asm() function on parisc, that seems to be unused. Not sure what's up with that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-1-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260107072009.1615991-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Co-developed-by: Ankur Arora Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ankur Arora Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Konrad Rzessutek Wilk Cc: Lance Yang Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Li Zhe Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Raghavendra K T Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

parisc: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-05-04T18:46:27+00:00

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This can be very confusing when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now. This is mostly a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement), except for some manual tweaks in the files arch/parisc/include/asm/smp.h, arch/parisc/include/asm/signal.h, arch/parisc/include/asm/thread_info.h and arch/parisc/include/asm/vdso.h that had the macro spelled in a wrong way. Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

Merge tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2024-11-20T23:13:02+00:00

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann: "These are a number of unrelated cleanups, generally simplifying the architecture specific header files: - A series from Al Viro simplifies asm/vga.h, after it turns out that most of it can be generalized. - A series from Julian Vetter adds a common version of memcpy_{to,from}io() and memset_io() and changes most architectures to use that instead of their own implementation - A series from Niklas Schnelle concludes his work to make PC style inb()/outb() optional - Nicolas Pitre contributes improvements for the generic do_div() helper - Christoph Hellwig adds a generic version of page_to_phys() and phys_to_page(), replacing the slightly different architecture specific definitions. - Uwe Kleine-Koenig has a minor cleanup for ioctl definitions" * tag 'asm-generic-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits) empty include/asm-generic/vga.h sparc: get rid of asm/vga.h asm/vga.h: don't bother with scr_mem{cpy,move}v() unless we need to vt_buffer.h: get rid of dead code in default scr_...() instances tty: serial: export serial_8250_warn_need_ioport lib/iomem_copy: fix kerneldoc format style hexagon: simplify asm/io.h for !HAS_IOPORT loongarch: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset csky: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset arm64: Use new fallback IO memcpy/memset New implementation for IO memcpy and IO memset watchdog: Add HAS_IOPORT dependency for SBC8360 and SBC7240 __arch_xprod64(): make __always_inline when optimizing for performance ARM: div64: improve __arch_xprod_64() asm-generic/div64: optimize/simplify __div64_const32() lib/math/test_div64: add some edge cases relevant to __div64_const32() asm-generic: add an optional pfn_valid check to page_to_phys asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations asm-generic/io.h: Remove I/O port accessors for HAS_IOPORT=n tty: serial: handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies ...

asm-generic: provide generic page_to_phys and phys_to_page implementations

2024-10-28T21:44:28+00:00

page_to_phys is duplicated by all architectures, and from some strange reason placed in where it doesn't fit at all. phys_to_page is only provided by a few architectures despite having a lot of open coded users. Provide generic versions in to make these helpers more easily usable. Note with this patch powerpc loses the CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL pfn_valid check. It will be added back in a generic version later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

vdso: Introduce vdso/page.h

2024-10-15T22:13:04+00:00

The VDSO implementation includes headers from outside of the vdso/ namespace. Introduce vdso/page.h to make sure that the generic library uses only the allowed namespace. Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014151340.1639555-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com

parisc: Define HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA

2024-05-15T15:14:26+00:00

Define the HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA macro like other platforms do in their page.h files to avoid this compile warning: arch/parisc/mm/hugetlbpage.c:25:1: warning: no previous prototype for 'hugetlb_get_unmapped_area' [-Wmissing-prototypes] Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.0+ Reported-by: John David Anglin Tested-by: John David Anglin

arch: simplify architecture specific page size configuration

2024-03-06T18:29:03+00:00

arc, arm64, parisc and powerpc all have their own Kconfig symbols in place of the common CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_4KB symbols. Change these so the common symbols are the ones that are actually used, while leaving the arhcitecture specific ones as the user visible place for configuring it, to avoid breaking user configs. Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (powerpc32) Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Helge Deller # parisc Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM

2023-02-10T00:51:41+00:00

Every architecture that supports FLATMEM memory model defines its own version of pfn_valid() that essentially compares a pfn to max_mapnr. Use mips/powerpc version implemented as static inline as a generic implementation of pfn_valid() and drop its per-architecture definitions. [rppt@kernel.org: fix the generic pfn_valid()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y9lg7R1Yd931C+y5@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230129124235.209895-5-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Guo Ren [csky] Acked-by: Huacai Chen [LoongArch] Acked-by: Stafford Horne [OpenRISC] Acked-by: Michael Ellerman [powerpc] Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Tested-by: Conor Dooley Cc: Brian Cain Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dinh Nguyen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

parisc: Rewrite cache flush code for PA8800/PA8900

2022-05-17T19:52:47+00:00

Originally, I was convinced that we needed to use tmpalias flushes everwhere, for both user and kernel flushes. However, when I modified flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr, to use a tmpalias flush, my c8000 would crash quite early when booting. The PDC returns alias values of 0 for the icache and dcache. This indicates that either the alias boundary is greater than 16MB or equivalent aliasing doesn't work. I modified the tmpalias code to make it easy to try alternate boundaries. I tried boundaries up to 128MB but still kernel tmpalias flushes didn't work on c8000. This led me to conclude that tmpalias flushes don't work on PA8800 and PA8900 machines, and that we needed to flush directly using the virtual address of user and kernel pages. This is likely the major cause of instability on the c8000 and rp34xx machines. Flushing user pages requires doing a temporary context switch as we have to flush pages that don't belong to the current context. Further, we have to deal with pages that aren't present. If a page isn't present, the flush instructions fault on every line. Other code has been rearranged and simplified based on testing. For example, I introduced a flush_cache_dup_mm routine. flush_cache_mm and flush_cache_dup_mm differ in that flush_cache_mm calls purge_cache_pages and flush_cache_dup_mm calls flush_cache_pages. In some implementations, pdc is more efficient than fdc. Based on my testing, I don't believe there's any performance benefit on the c8000. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

parisc: Use absolute_pointer() to define PAGE0

2021-09-16T06:35:42+00:00

Use absolute_pointer() wrapper for PAGE0 to avoid this compiler warning: arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c: In function 'start_parisc': error: '__builtin_memcmp_eq' specified bound 8 exceeds source size 0 Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Co-Developed-by: Guenter Roeck Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds