Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756974Ab1CBKwm (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 05:52:42 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:47554 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756899Ab1CBKwl (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 05:52:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/17] arm: mmu_gather rework From: Peter Zijlstra To: Chris Metcalf Cc: Russell King , Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity , Thomas Gleixner , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Miller , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , Paul McKenney , Yanmin Zhang , "Luck,Tony" , PaulMundt In-Reply-To: <4D6D6DB4.5020603@tilera.com> References: <20110217162327.434629380@chello.nl> <20110217163235.106239192@chello.nl> <1298565253.2428.288.camel@twins> <1298657083.2428.2483.camel@twins> <20110225215123.GA10026@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1298893487.2428.10537.camel@twins> <4D6D6DB4.5020603@tilera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:54:03 +0100 Message-ID: <1299063243.1310.12.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3311 Lines: 72 On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 17:05 -0500, Chris Metcalf wrote: > For Tile, the concern is that we want to make sure to invalidate the > i-cache. The I-TLB is handled by the regular TLB flush just fine, like the > other architectures. So our concern is that once we have cleared the page > table entries and invalidated the TLBs, we still have to deal with i-cache > lines in any core that may have run code from that page. The risk is that > the kernel might free, reallocate, and then run code from one of those > pages, all before the stale i-cache lines happened to be evicted. >From reading Documentation/cachetlb.txt, update_mmu_cache() can be used to flush i-cache whenever you install a pte with executable permissions, and covers the particular case you mention above. DaveM any comment? You seem to be the one who wrote that document :-) > The current Tile code flushes the icache explicitly at two different times: > > 1. Whenever we flush the TLB, since this is one time when we know who might > currently be using the page (via cpu_vm_mask) and we can flush all of them > easily, piggybacking on the infrastructure we use to flush remote TLBs. > > 2. Whenever we context switch, to handle the case where cpu 1 is running > process A, then switches to B, but another cpu still running process A > unmaps an executable page that was in cpu 1's icache. This way when cpu 1 > switches back to A, it doesn't have to worry about any unmaps that occurred > while it was switched out. > > > > I'm not sure what we can do about TILE's VM_HUGETLB usage though, if it > > needs explicit flushes for huge ptes it might just have to issue > > multiple tlb invalidates and do them from tlb_start_vma()/tlb_end_vma(). > > I'm not too concerned about this. We can make the flush code check both > page sizes at a small cost in efficiency, relative to the overall cost of > global TLB invalidation. OK, that's basically what I made it do now: Index: linux-2.6/arch/tile/kernel/tlb.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/tile/kernel/tlb.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/tile/kernel/tlb.c @@ -64,14 +64,13 @@ void flush_tlb_page(const struct vm_area } EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page); -void flush_tlb_range(const struct vm_area_struct *vma, +void flush_tlb_range(const struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { - unsigned long size = hv_page_size(vma); - struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; - int cache = (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC) ? HV_FLUSH_EVICT_L1I : 0; - flush_remote(0, cache, &mm->cpu_vm_mask, start, end - start, size, - &mm->cpu_vm_mask, NULL, 0); + flush_remote(0, HV_FLUSH_EVICT_L1I, &mm->cpu_vm_mask, + start, end - start, PAGE_SIZE, &mm->cpu_vm_mask, NULL, 0); + flush_remote(0, 0, &mm->cpu_vm_mask, + start, end - start, HPAGE_SIZE, &mm->cpu_vm_mask, NULL, 0); } And I guess that if the update_mmu_cache() thing works out we can remove the HV_FLUSH_EVICT_L1I thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/