When fixing spufs to map the 'mem' file backing store cacheable,
I incorrectly set the physical mapping to use both cache-inhibited
and guarded mapping, which resulted in a serious performance
degradation.
Debugged-by: Michael Ellerman [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <redacted>
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Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
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--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
@@ -105,11 +105,11 @@ spufs_mem_mmap_nopage(struct vm_area_str
if (ctx->state == SPU_STATE_SAVED) {
vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot)
- & ~(_PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_GUARDED));
+ & ~_PAGE_NO_CACHE);
page = vmalloc_to_page(ctx->csa.lscsa->ls + offset);
} else {
vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot)
- | _PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_GUARDED);
+ | _PAGE_NO_CACHE);
page = pfn_to_page((ctx->spu->local_store_phys + offset)
>> PAGE_SHIFT);
}
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