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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2018-06-01 13:01:16 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-06-03 13:40:35 +0300
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powerpc/64s/radix: do not flush TLB on spurious fault
In the case of a spurious fault (which can happen due to a race with another thread that changes the page table), the default Linux mm code calls flush_tlb_page for that address. This is not required because the pte will be re-fetched. Hash does not wire this up to a hardware TLB flush for this reason. This patch avoids the flush for radix. >From Power ISA v3.0B, p.1090: Setting a Reference or Change Bit or Upgrading Access Authority (PTE Subject to Atomic Hardware Updates) If the only change being made to a valid PTE that is subject to atomic hardware updates is to set the Refer- ence or Change bit to 1 or to add access authorities, a simpler sequence suffices because the translation hardware will refetch the PTE if an access is attempted for which the only problems were reference and/or change bits needing to be set or insufficient access authority. The nest MMU on POWER9 does not re-fetch the PTE after such an access attempt before faulting, so address spaces with a coprocessor attached will continue to flush in these cases. This reduces tlbies for a kernel compile workload from 0.95M to 0.90M. fork --fork --exec benchmark improved 0.5% (12300->12400). Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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