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From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] ARC: perf: avoid vmalloc backed mmap
Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 14:13:03 -0800
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For non-alising Dcache, vmalloc is not needed.

vmalloc triggers additonal D-TLB Misses in the perf interrupt code path
making it slightly inefficient as evident from hackbench runs below.

| [ARCLinux]# perf stat -e dTLB-load-misses --repeat 5 hackbench
| Running with 10*40 (== 400) tasks.
| Time: 35.060
| ...
| Performance counter stats for 'hackbench' (5 runs):

Before:      399235      dTLB-load-misses ( +-  2.08% )
After :      397676      dTLB-load-misses ( +-  2.27% )

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
---
 arch/arc/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/Kconfig b/arch/arc/Kconfig
index c84e67fdea09..f3cad98eeb8f 100644
--- a/arch/arc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arc/Kconfig
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ config ARC
 	select OF
 	select OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
 	select OF_RESERVED_MEM
-	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
+	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC if ARC_CACHE_VIPT_ALIASING
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
 	select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
-- 
2.7.4


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