This series does mainly two things:
- Remove the 8M alignment constraint on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX on 8xx to
avoid wasting memory.
- Speed-up TLB misses by duplicating kernel PGD entries into each
task's PGDIRs to avoid the address comparison in TLB miss handler.
On 8xx, the address comparison takes a significant part of CPU cycles
as it requires saving/restoring CR, and because a taken branch
requires 2 cycles.
On 603 it is less significant because CR is saved automatically and
has to be restored anyway but it is still worth it.
For ITLB misses:
- Kernel PGD entries are setup for once during init, before creation
of new PGDIRs.
- Module PGD entries are setup also at init by preallocating page
tables for a very few number of pages
For DTLB misses:
- Some handling is added in 8xx DATA TLB error interrupt and in
603 DATA read and store TLB miss interrupts to copy missing PGD
entries into child.
The cost of that additional handling on error paths is worth the gain
on hot TLB miss pathes.
Because 8xx and 603 don't use leaf kernel pages at PGD level, there is
no need to care about PGD entries cleanup, page tables are never freed.
Christophe Leroy (14):
powerpc/8xx: Fix initial memory mapping
powerpc/8xx: Fix kernel vs user address comparison
powerpc/8xx: Copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs
Revert "powerpc/8xx: Always pin kernel text TLB"
powerpc/8xx: Allow setting DATA alignment even with STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
powerpc/8xx: Reduce default size of module/execmem area
powerpc/8xx: Preallocate execmem page tables
powerpc/8xx: Inconditionally use task PGDIR in ITLB misses
powerpc/8xx: Inconditionally use task PGDIR in DTLB misses
powerpc/32s: Reduce default size of module/execmem area
powerpc/603: Copy kernel PGD entries into all PGDIRs and preallocate
execmem page tables
powerpc/603: Switch r0 and r3 in TLB miss handlers
powerpc/603: Inconditionally use task PGDIR in ITLB misses
powerpc/603: Inconditionally use task PGDIR in DTLB misses
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 31 +++-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/pgtable.h | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/mmu-8xx.h | 3 +-
arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgalloc.h | 8 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 78 +++++-----
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_book3s_32.S | 144 +++++++++----------
arch/powerpc/mm/book3s32/mmu.c | 2 +
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 14 ++
arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/8xx.c | 9 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/Kconfig | 7 +
10 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
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2.44.0
