powerpc/64s/radix: optimise pte_update

Implementing pte_update with pte_xchg (which uses cmpxchg) is
inefficient. A single larx/stcx. works fine, no need for the less
efficient cmpxchg sequence.

Then remove the memory barriers from the operation. There is a
requirement for TLB flushing to load mm_cpumask after the store
that reduces pte permissions, which is moved into the TLB flush
code.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context.c
index 0ab297c4cfad..f84e14f23e50 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context.c
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 		 * in switch_slb(), and/or the store of paca->mm_ctx_id in
 		 * copy_mm_to_paca().
 		 *
-		 * On the read side the barrier is in pte_xchg(), which orders
-		 * the store to the PTE vs the load of mm_cpumask.
+		 * On the other side, the barrier is in mm/tlb-radix.c for
+		 * radix which orders earlier stores to clear the PTEs vs
+		 * the load of mm_cpumask. And pte_xchg which does the same
+		 * thing for hash.
 		 *
 		 * This full barrier is needed by membarrier when switching
 		 * between processes after store to rq->curr, before user-space