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>
If we know that user address space has never executed on other cpus
we could use tlbiel.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Rename invalidate_old_hpte to flush_hash_hugepage and use that in
other places.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We would get wrong results in compiler recomputed old_pmd. Avoid
that by using ACCESS_ONCE
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If we changed base page size of the segment, either via sub_page_protect
or via remap_4k_pfn, we do a demote_segment which doesn't flush the hash
table entries. We do a lazy hash page table flush for all mapped pages
in the demoted segment. This happens when we handle hash page fault
for these pages.
We use _PAGE_COMBO bit along with _PAGE_HASHPTE to indicate whether a
pte is backed by 4K hash pte. If we find _PAGE_COMBO not set on the pte,
that implies that we could possibly have older 64K hash pte entries in
the hash page table and we need to invalidate those entries.
Handle this correctly for 16M pages
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
With hugepages, we store the hpte valid information in the pte page
whose address is stored in the second half of the PMD. Use a
write barrier to make sure clearing pmd busy bit and updating
hpte valid info are ordered properly.
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Set memory coherence always on hash64 config. If
a platform cannot have memory coherence always set they
can infer that from _PAGE_NO_CACHE and _PAGE_WRITETHRU
like in lpar. So we dont' really need a separate bit
for tracking _PAGE_COHERENCE.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We need to have irqs disabled to handle all the possible parallel update for
linux page table without holding locks.
Events that we are intersted in while walking page tables are
1) Page fault
2) umap
3) THP split
4) THP collapse
A) local_irq_disabled:
------------------------
1) page fault:
A none to valid transition via page fault is not an issue because we
would either see a none or valid. If it is none, we would error out
the page table walk. We may need to use on stack values when checking for
type of page table elements, because if we do
if (!is_hugepd()) {
if (!pmd_none() {
if (pmd_bad() {
We could take that bad condition because the pmd got converted to a hugepd
after the !is_hugepd check via a hugetlb fault.
The right way would be to check for pmd_none higher up or use on stack value.
2) A valid to none conversion via unmap:
We can safely walk the upper level table, because we don't remove the the
page table entries until rcu grace period. So even if we followed a
wrong pointer we still have the pointer valid till the grace period.
A PTE pointer returned need to be atomically checked for _PAGE_PRESENT and
_PAGE_BUSY. A valid pointer returned could becoming none later. To prevent
pte_clear we take _PAGE_BUSY.
3) THP split:
A valid transparent hugepage is converted to nomal page. Before we split we
do pmd_splitting_flush, which sets the hugepage PTE to _PAGE_SPLITTING
So when walking page table we need to check for pmd_trans_splitting and
handle that. The pte returned should also need to be checked for
_PAGE_SPLITTING before setting _PAGE_BUSY similar to _PAGE_PRESENT. We save
the value of PTE on stack and check for the flag in the local pte value.
If we don't have the value set we can safely operate on the local pte value
and we atomicaly set _PAGE_BUSY.
4) THP collapse:
A normal page gets converted to hugepage. In the collapse path, we
mark the pmd none early (pmdp_clear_flush). With irq disabled, if we
are aleady walking page table we would see the pmd_none and won't continue.
If we see a valid PMD, we should still check for _PAGE_PRESENT before
setting _PAGE_BUSY, to make sure we didn't collapse the PTE to a Huge PTE.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The deposted PTE page in the second half of the PMD table is used to
track the state on hash PTEs. After updating the HPTE, we mark the
coresponding slot in the deposted PTE page valid.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Michael Ellerman