The preventive sfence.vma were emitted because new mappings must be made
visible to the page table walker but Svvptc guarantees that it will
happen within a bounded timeframe, so no need to sfence.vma for the uarchs
that implement this extension, we will then take gratuitous (but very
unlikely) page faults, similarly to x86 and arm64.
This allows to drastically reduce the number of sfence.vma emitted:
* Ubuntu boot to login:
Before: ~630k sfence.vma
After: ~200k sfence.vma
* ltp - mmapstress01
Before: ~45k
After: ~6.3k
* lmbench - lat_pagefault
Before: ~665k
After: 832 (!)
* lmbench - lat_mmap
Before: ~546k
After: 718 (!)
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240717060125.139416-5-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
We used to emit a flush_icache_all() whenever a dirty executable
mapping is set in the page table but we can instead call
flush_icache_mm() which will only send IPIs to cores that currently run
this mm and add a deferred icache flush to the others.
The number of calls to sbi_remote_fence_i() (tested without IPI
support):
With a simple buildroot rootfs:
* Before: ~5k
* After : 4 (!)
Tested on HW, the boot to login is ~4.5% faster.
With an ubuntu rootfs:
* Before: ~24k
* After : ~13k
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202124711.256146-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
When THP is enabled, 4K pages are collapsed into a single huge
page using the generic pmdp_collapse_flush() which will further
use flush_tlb_range() to shoot-down stale TLB entries. Unfortunately,
the generic pmdp_collapse_flush() only invalidates cached leaf PTEs
using address specific SFENCEs which results in repetitive (or
unpredictable) page faults on RISC-V implementations which cache
non-leaf PTEs.
Provide a RISC-V specific pmdp_collapse_flush() which ensures both
cached leaf and non-leaf PTEs are invalidated by using non-address
specific SFENCEs as recommended by the RISC-V privileged specification.
Fixes: e88b333142 ("riscv: mm: add THP support on 64-bit")
Signed-off-by: Mayuresh Chitale <mchitale@ventanamicro.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230130074815.1694055-1-mchitale@ventanamicro.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
