powerpc/mm: don't do tlbie for updatepp request with NO HPTE fault

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>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
index 13700911b522..9c4880ddecd6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
@@ -283,11 +283,11 @@ static long native_hpte_remove(unsigned long hpte_group)
 
 static long native_hpte_updatepp(unsigned long slot, unsigned long newpp,
 				 unsigned long vpn, int bpsize,
-				 int apsize, int ssize, int local)
+				 int apsize, int ssize, unsigned long flags)
 {
 	struct hash_pte *hptep = htab_address + slot;
 	unsigned long hpte_v, want_v;
-	int ret = 0;
+	int ret = 0, local = 0;
 
 	want_v = hpte_encode_avpn(vpn, bpsize, ssize);
 
@@ -322,8 +322,15 @@ static long native_hpte_updatepp(unsigned long slot, unsigned long newpp,
 		}
 		native_unlock_hpte(hptep);
 	}
-	/* Ensure it is out of the tlb too. */
-	tlbie(vpn, bpsize, apsize, ssize, local);
+
+	if (flags & HPTE_LOCAL_UPDATE)
+		local = 1;
+	/*
+	 * Ensure it is out of the tlb too if it is not a nohpte fault
+	 */
+	if (!(flags & HPTE_NOHPTE_UPDATE))
+		tlbie(vpn, bpsize, apsize, ssize, local);
+
 	return ret;
 }