fix the 3D performance drop reported at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10328
fb drivers are using ioremap()/ioremap_nocache(), followed by mtrr_add with
WC attribute. Recent changes in page attribute code made both
ioremap()/ioremap_nocache() mappings as UC (instead of previous UC-). This
breaks the graphics performance, as the effective memory type is UC instead
of expected WC.
The correct way to fix this is to add ioremap_wc() (which uses UC- in the
absence of PAT kernel support and WC with PAT) and change all the
fb drivers to use this new ioremap_wc() API.
We can take this correct and longer route for post 2.6.25. For now,
revert back to the UC- behavior for ioremap/ioremap_nocache.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Revert:
commit 8be8f54bae
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Feb 23 20:43:21 2008 +0100
x86: CPA: avoid split of alias mappings
because it clearly mishandles the case when __change_page_attr(), called
from __change_page_attr_set_clr(), changes cpa->processed to 1 and
cpa_process_alias(cpa) is executed right after that.
This crashes my x86-64 test box early in the boot process
(ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10140#c4).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
avoid over-eager large page splitup.
When the target area needs to be split or is split already (ioremap)
then the current code enforces the split of large mappings in the alias
regions even if we could avoid it.
Use a separate variable processed in the cpa_data structure to carry
the number of pages which have been processed instead of reusing the
numpages variable. This keeps numpages intact and gives the alias code
a chance to keep large mappings intact.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use PF_MEMALLOC to prevent recursive calls in the DBEUG_PAGEALLOC
case. This makes the code simpler and more robust against allocation
failures.
This fixes the following fallback to non-mmconfig:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/551http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10083
Also, for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n reduce the pool size to one page.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Make hibernation work with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC set on x86, by
checking if the pages to be copied are marked as present in the
kernel mapping and temporarily marking them as present if that's not
the case. No functional modifications are introduced if
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is unset.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
New implementation does not use lru for anything so there is no need
to reject pages that are in the LRU. Similar for compound pages (which
were checked because they also use page->lru)
[ tglx@linutronix.de: removed unused variable ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When the CPA code is called with an virtual address in the range of
the direct mapping or the high alias then we do not need to run
through the alias check for this range.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
NX settings are not required to be consistent across alias mappings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
c_p_a() did not discover all aliases correctly. (such as when called
on vmalloc()-ed areas or ioremap()-ed areas)
Push the alias checks to the lower, physical level and consistently
discover all aliases that might exist: the low direct mappings and
the high linear kernel-text mappings (on 64-bit).
Thanks to Andi Kleen for pointing out that this was buggy.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
the cpa API is page aligned - warn about any weird alignments.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ mingo@elte.hu: while gbpages cannot be enabled on mainline currently,
keep the code uptodate and this fix is easy enough. ]
Use correct page sizes and masks for GB pages in try_preserve_large_page()
This prevents a boot hang on a GB capable system with CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Right now, we check only the first 4k page for static required protections.
This does not take overlapping regions into account. So we might end up
setting the wrong permissions/protections for other parts of this large page.
This can be optimized further, but correctness is the important part.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Switch the split page code to use the page pool. We do this
unconditionally to avoid different behaviour with and without
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC was not possible on 64-bit due to its early-bootup
hardcoded reliance on PSE pages, and the unrobustness of the runtime
splitup of large pages. The splitup ended in recursive calls to
alloc_pages() when a page for a pte split was requested.
Avoid the recursion with a preallocated page pool, which is used to
split up large mappings and gets refilled in the return path of
kernel_map_pages after the split has been done. The size of the page
pool is adjusted to the available memory.
This part just implements the page pool and the initialization w/o
using it yet.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adjust the definition of lookup_address to take an unsigned long
level argument. Adjust callers in xen/mmu.c that pass in a
dummy variable.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The .rodata section really should just be read only; the config option
is there to make breaking up the 2Mb page an option (so people whos machines
give more performance for the 2Mb case can opt to do so).
But when the page gets split anyway, this is no longer an issue, so
clean up the code and remove the ifdefs
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is
currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing
the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the readout of the large entry into the spinlock section to
prevent an unlikely but possible race.
Mark the pmd/pud entry present after the split. We preserved the
non present bit in the new split mapping.
Remove the stale gfp_flags double initialization.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
lookup_address() returns a wrong level and a wrong pointer to a non
existing pte, when pmd or pud entries are marked !present. This
happens for example due to boot time mapping of GART into the low
memory space.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
An Athlon 64 X2 test system showed hard hangs shortly after marking
the kernel text read-only, if we tried to preserve largepages and
changed the PSE entry from RW to RO. The pagetable code itself is
correct, it's the CPU that locked up hard (and not even the NMI
watchdog could punch through that hard hang).
So be conservative and always do splitups - like we did in the past.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When CPA is called on a range which fits into a large page mapping,
avoid to split the page when:
1) There is no change of attributes
2) The range to change is a complete large mapping
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The number of arguments which need to be transported is increasing
and we want to add flush optimizations and large page preserving.
Create struct cpa data and pass a pointer instead of increasing the
number of arguments further.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We only need to flush the caches in cpa() if the the caching attributes
have changed. Otherwise only flush the TLBs.
This checks the PAT bits too although they are currently not used by
the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mask out the not supported bits (e.g. NX). If the clr/set masks
are empty after the mask return without changing anything.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When splitting large pages, we ge the pfn from the existing entry
instead of calculating it ourself.
This removes the last remaining range restriction of the cpa code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When changing the attributes of a pte, we should use the PFN from the
existing PTE rather than going through hoops calculating what we think
it might have been; this is both fragile and totally unneeded. It also
makes it more hairy to call any of these functions on non-direct maps
for no good reason whatsover.
With this change, __change_page_attr() no longer takes a pfn as argument,
which simplifies all the callers.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de>
Right now, enforcing that the high mapping of the kernel text doesn't
get the NX bit is done deep in the guts of CPA, rather than in the
static_protection() function that enforces all other per-arch sanity
checks.
This patch moves this sanity check into the central static_protection()
function instead, and makes it apply ONLY to the kernel text, not to all
other areas in the high mapping.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In split_large_page we clear the NX bit for the new split ptes, but we
need to preserve the original setting of it for the split ptes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch replaces __change_page_attr_set_clr() with
change_page_attr_set_clr() in change_page_attr_clear() to flush the
TLB/cache properly.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use a standard list threaded through page->lru for maintaining the pgd
list on PAE. This is the same as 64-bit, and seems saner than using a
non-standard list via page->index.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cleanup the address calculations, which are necessary to identify the
high/low alias mappings of the kernel on 64 bit machines. Instead of
calling __pa/__va back and forth, calculate the physical address once
and base the other calculations on it. Add understandable constants so
we can use the already available within() helper. Also add comments,
which help mere mortals to understand what this code does.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
clflush is sufficient to be issued on one CPU. The invalidation is
broadcast throughout the coherence domain.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
clflush is an unordered operation with respect to other memory
traffic, including other CLFLUSH instructions. This needs proper
fencing with mfence.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The function name global_flush_tlb() suggests something different from
what the function really does. Rename it to cpa_flush_all(), which is an
understandable counterpart to cpa_flush_range().
no global visibility of the old API anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use clflush on CPUs which support this.
clflush is only used when the page attribute operation has been
successful. On CPUs which do not support clflush and in the case of
error the old fashioned global_flush_tlb() is called.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Convert cpa_set and cpa_clear to call the new set_clr function.
Seperate out the debug helpers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
