Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64s/radix: do not flush TLB when relaxing access
From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-05-09 07:07:51
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Nicholas Piggin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Radix flushes the TLB when updating ptes to increase permissiveness of protection (increase access authority). Book3S does not require TLB flushing in this case, and it is not done on hash. This patch avoids the flush for radix. From Power ISA v3.0B, p.1090: Setting a Reference or Change Bit or Upgrading Access Authority (PTE Subject to Atomic Hardware Updates) If the only change being made to a valid PTE that is subject to atomic hardware updates is to set the Reference or Change bit to 1 or to add access authorities, a simpler sequence suffices because the translation hardware will refetch the PTE if an access is attempted for which the only problems were reference and/or change bits needing to be set or insufficient access authority. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c | 1 - arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c index 518518fb7c45..6e991eaccab4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, if (changed) { __ptep_set_access_flags(vma->vm_mm, pmdp_ptep(pmdp), pmd_pte(entry), address); - flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
The comment states that this can be used for missing execution permissions as well. I am not convinced we can skip a flush in those cases
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} return changed; }diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c index 9f361ae571e9..5b07a626df5b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) assert_pte_locked(vma->vm_mm, address); __ptep_set_access_flags(vma->vm_mm, ptep, entry, address); - flush_tlb_page(vma, address); + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)) + flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
Same as above Balbir Singh.