no_slb_preload cmdline can come useful in quickly disabling and/or
testing the performance impact of userspace slb preloads. Recently there
was a slb multi-hit issue due to slb preload cache which was very
difficult to triage. This cmdline option allows to quickly disable
preloads and verify if the issue exists in preload cache or somewhere
else. This can also be a useful option to see the effect of slb preloads
for any application workload e.g. number of slb faults with or w/o slb
preloads.
with slb_preload:
slb_faults (minimal initrd boot): 15
slb_faults (full systemd boot): 300
with no_slb_preload:
slb_faults (minimal initrd boot): 33
slb_faults (full systemd boot): 138180
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/de484b55c45d831bc2db63945f455153c89a9a65.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
We dropped preload_new_slb_context() & slb_setup_new_exec() in a
previous patch. That means we don't really need preload_add() return
type anymore. So let's make its return type as void.
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/88b07223e93b0fc56c1119f6889b7d9c83e20109.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
On systems using the hash MMU, there is a software SLB preload cache that
mirrors the entries loaded into the hardware SLB buffer. This preload
cache is subject to periodic eviction — typically after every 256 context
switches — to remove old entry.
To optimize performance, the kernel skips switch_mmu_context() in
switch_mm_irqs_off() when the prev and next mm_struct are the same.
However, on hash MMU systems, this can lead to inconsistencies between
the hardware SLB and the software preload cache.
If an SLB entry for a process is evicted from the software cache on one
CPU, and the same process later runs on another CPU without executing
switch_mmu_context(), the hardware SLB may retain stale entries. If the
kernel then attempts to reload that entry, it can trigger an SLB
multi-hit error.
The following timeline shows how stale SLB entries are created and can
cause a multi-hit error when a process moves between CPUs without a
MMU context switch.
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
Process P
exec swapper/1
load_elf_binary
begin_new_exc
activate_mm
switch_mm_irqs_off
switch_mmu_context
switch_slb
/*
* This invalidates all
* the entries in the HW
* and setup the new HW
* SLB entries as per the
* preload cache.
*/
context_switch
sched_migrate_task migrates process P to cpu-1
Process swapper/0 context switch (to process P)
(uses mm_struct of Process P) switch_mm_irqs_off()
switch_slb
load_slb++
/*
* load_slb becomes 0 here
* and we evict an entry from
* the preload cache with
* preload_age(). We still
* keep HW SLB and preload
* cache in sync, that is
* because all HW SLB entries
* anyways gets evicted in
* switch_slb during SLBIA.
* We then only add those
* entries back in HW SLB,
* which are currently
* present in preload_cache
* (after eviction).
*/
load_elf_binary continues...
setup_new_exec()
slb_setup_new_exec()
sched_switch event
sched_migrate_task migrates
process P to cpu-0
context_switch from swapper/0 to Process P
switch_mm_irqs_off()
/*
* Since both prev and next mm struct are same we don't call
* switch_mmu_context(). This will cause the HW SLB and SW preload
* cache to go out of sync in preload_new_slb_context. Because there
* was an SLB entry which was evicted from both HW and preload cache
* on cpu-1. Now later in preload_new_slb_context(), when we will try
* to add the same preload entry again, we will add this to the SW
* preload cache and then will add it to the HW SLB. Since on cpu-0
* this entry was never invalidated, hence adding this entry to the HW
* SLB will cause a SLB multi-hit error.
*/
load_elf_binary continues...
START_THREAD
start_thread
preload_new_slb_context
/*
* This tries to add a new EA to preload cache which was earlier
* evicted from both cpu-1 HW SLB and preload cache. This caused the
* HW SLB of cpu-0 to go out of sync with the SW preload cache. The
* reason for this was, that when we context switched back on CPU-0,
* we should have ideally called switch_mmu_context() which will
* bring the HW SLB entries on CPU-0 in sync with SW preload cache
* entries by setting up the mmu context properly. But we didn't do
* that since the prev mm_struct running on cpu-0 was same as the
* next mm_struct (which is true for swapper / kernel threads). So
* now when we try to add this new entry into the HW SLB of cpu-0,
* we hit a SLB multi-hit error.
*/
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1810970 at arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slb.c:62
assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50(48 results) 02:47:29 [20157/42149]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1810970 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-dirty #12
VOLUNTARY
Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER8 (architected)
0x4d0200 0xf000004 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries
NIP: c00000000015426c LR: c0000000001543b4 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000000497c77e0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.16.0-rc3-dirty)
MSR: 8000000002823033 <SF,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28888482 XER: 00000000
CFAR: c0000000001543b0 IRQMASK: 3
<...>
NIP [c00000000015426c] assert_slb_presence+0x2c/0x50
LR [c0000000001543b4] slb_insert_entry+0x124/0x390
Call Trace:
0x7fffceb5ffff (unreliable)
preload_new_slb_context+0x100/0x1a0
start_thread+0x26c/0x420
load_elf_binary+0x1b04/0x1c40
bprm_execve+0x358/0x680
do_execveat_common+0x1f8/0x240
sys_execve+0x58/0x70
system_call_exception+0x114/0x300
system_call_common+0x160/0x2c4
>From the above analysis, during early exec the hardware SLB is cleared,
and entries from the software preload cache are reloaded into hardware
by switch_slb. However, preload_new_slb_context and slb_setup_new_exec
also attempt to load some of the same entries, which can trigger a
multi-hit. In most cases, these additional preloads simply hit existing
entries and add nothing new. Removing these functions avoids redundant
preloads and eliminates the multi-hit issue. This patch removes these
two functions.
We tested process switching performance using the context_switch
benchmark on POWER9/hash, and observed no regression.
Without this patch: 129041 ops/sec
With this patch: 129341 ops/sec
We also measured SLB faults during boot, and the counts are essentially
the same with and without this patch.
SLB faults without this patch: 19727
SLB faults with this patch: 19786
Fixes: 5434ae7462 ("powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0ac694ae683494fe8cadbd911a1a5018d5d3c541.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
Several architectures support text patching, but they name the header
files that declare patching functions differently.
Make all such headers consistently named text-patching.h and add an empty
header in asm-generic for architectures that do not support text patching.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241023162711.2579610-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kdevops <kdevops@lists.linux.dev>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
By adding a forward declaration for struct lppaca we can untangle paca.h
and lppaca.h. Also move get_lppaca() into lppaca.h for consistency.
Add includes of lppaca.h to some files that need it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230823055317.751786-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Various spelling mistakes in comments.
Detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220430185654.5855-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
We originally added asm-prototypes.h in commit 42f5b4cacd ("powerpc:
Introduce asm-prototypes.h"). It's purpose was for prototypes of C
functions that are only called from asm, in order to fix sparse
warnings about missing prototypes.
A few months later Nick added a different use case in
commit 4efca4ed05 ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm")
for C prototypes for exported asm functions. This is basically the
inverse of our original usage.
Since then we've added various prototypes to asm-prototypes.h for both
reasons, meaning we now need to unstitch it all.
Dispatch prototypes of C functions into relevant headers and keep
only the prototypes for functions defined in assembly.
For the time being, leave prom_init() there because moving it
into asm/prom.h or asm/setup.h conflicts with
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowrom.o
This will be fixed later by untaggling asm/pci.h and asm/prom.h
or by renaming the function in shadowrom.c
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62d46904eca74042097acf4cb12c175e3067f3d1.1646413435.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
slb.c is hash-specific SLB management, but do_bad_slb_fault deals with
segment interrupts that occur with radix MMU as well.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201144153.2456614-5-npiggin@gmail.com
This makes a small improvement to the description of the SLB interrupt
environment. Move the memory access restrictions into one paragraph,
and the interrupt restrictions into the next rather than mix them.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130130852.2952424-18-npiggin@gmail.com
Similar to the previous patch this makes interrupt handler function
types more regular so they can be wrapped with the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130130852.2952424-12-npiggin@gmail.com
Make mm fault handlers all just take the pt_regs * argument and load
DAR/DSISR from that. Make those that return a value return long.
This is done to make the function signatures match other handlers, which
will help with a future patch to add wrappers. Explicit arguments could
be added for performance but that would require more wrapper macro
variants.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130130852.2952424-7-npiggin@gmail.com
Since ISA v3.0, SLB no longer uses the slb_cache, and stab_rr is no
longer correlated with SLB allocation. Move those to pre-3.0.
While here, improve some alignments and reduce whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201128070728.825934-9-npiggin@gmail.com
MAX_PHYSMEM #define is used along with sparsemem to determine the SECTION_SHIFT
value. Powerpc also uses the same value to limit the max memory enabled on the
system. With 4K PAGE_SIZE and hash translation mode, we want to limit the max
memory enabled to 64TB due to page table size restrictions. However, with
radix translation, we don't have these restrictions. Hence split the radix
and hash MA_PHYSMEM limit and use different limit for each of them.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200608070904.387440-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
The replacement of <asm/pgrable.h> with <linux/pgtable.h> made the include
of the latter in the middle of asm includes. Fix this up with the aid of
the below script and manual adjustments here and there.
import sys
import re
if len(sys.argv) is not 3:
print "USAGE: %s <file> <header>" % (sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(1)
hdr_to_move="#include <linux/%s>" % sys.argv[2]
moved = False
in_hdrs = False
with open(sys.argv[1], "r") as f:
lines = f.readlines()
for _line in lines:
line = _line.rstrip('
')
if line == hdr_to_move:
continue
if line.startswith("#include <linux/"):
in_hdrs = True
elif not moved and in_hdrs:
moved = True
print hdr_to_move
print line
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-4-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The include/linux/pgtable.h is going to be the home of generic page table
manipulation functions.
Start with moving asm-generic/pgtable.h to include/linux/pgtable.h and
make the latter include asm/pgtable.h.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-3-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This option increases the number of SLB misses by limiting the number
of kernel SLB entries, and increased flushing of cached lookaside
information. This helps stress test difficult to hit paths in the
kernel.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Relocate the code into arch/powerpc/mm, s/torture/stress/]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511125825.3081305-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Many files in arch/powerpc/mm are only for book3S64. This patch
creates a subdirectory for them.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
[mpe: Update the selftest sym links, shorten new filenames, cleanup some
whitespace and formatting in the new files.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
Donet Tom
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Michael Ellerman
Julia Lawall
Christophe Leroy
Nicholas Piggin
Ganesh Goudar
Aneesh Kumar K.V
Mike Rapoport
Thomas Gleixner
Christophe Leroy