This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: powerpc-64s-improve-rfi-l1-d-cache-flush-fallback.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From mpe@ellerman.id.au Fri Feb 23 16:15:43 2018
From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:35:45 +1100 Subject: powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback To: stable@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Cc: npiggin@gmail.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux@roeck-us.net, corsac@debian.org Message-ID: 20180222123545.8946-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
From: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com
commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream.
The fallback RFI flush is used when firmware does not provide a way to flush the cache. It's a "displacement flush" that evicts useful data by displacing it with an uninteresting buffer.
The flush has to take care to work with implementation specific cache replacment policies, so the recipe has been in flux. The initial slow but conservative approach is to touch all lines of a congruence class, with dependencies between each load. It has since been determined that a linear pattern of loads without dependencies is sufficient, and is significantly faster.
Measuring the speed of a null syscall with RFI fallback flush enabled gives the relative improvement:
P8 - 1.83x P9 - 1.75x
The flush also becomes simpler and more adaptable to different cache geometries.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin npiggin@gmail.com [mpe: Backport to 4.9] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 3 - arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 3 - arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 76 ++++++++++++++++------------------- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 13 ----- 4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h @@ -212,8 +212,7 @@ struct paca_struct { */ u64 exrfi[13] __aligned(0x80); void *rfi_flush_fallback_area; - u64 l1d_flush_congruence; - u64 l1d_flush_sets; + u64 l1d_flush_size; #endif };
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c @@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ int main(void) DEFINE(PACA_IN_MCE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, in_mce)); DEFINE(PACA_RFI_FLUSH_FALLBACK_AREA, offsetof(struct paca_struct, rfi_flush_fallback_area)); DEFINE(PACA_EXRFI, offsetof(struct paca_struct, exrfi)); - DEFINE(PACA_L1D_FLUSH_CONGRUENCE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, l1d_flush_congruence)); - DEFINE(PACA_L1D_FLUSH_SETS, offsetof(struct paca_struct, l1d_flush_sets)); + DEFINE(PACA_L1D_FLUSH_SIZE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, l1d_flush_size)); #endif DEFINE(PACAHWCPUID, offsetof(struct paca_struct, hw_cpu_id)); DEFINE(PACAKEXECSTATE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, kexec_state)); --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S @@ -1602,39 +1602,37 @@ rfi_flush_fallback: std r9,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R9(r13) std r10,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R10(r13) std r11,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R11(r13) - std r12,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R12(r13) - std r8,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R13(r13) mfctr r9 ld r10,PACA_RFI_FLUSH_FALLBACK_AREA(r13) - ld r11,PACA_L1D_FLUSH_SETS(r13) - ld r12,PACA_L1D_FLUSH_CONGRUENCE(r13) - /* - * The load adresses are at staggered offsets within cachelines, - * which suits some pipelines better (on others it should not - * hurt). - */ - addi r12,r12,8 + ld r11,PACA_L1D_FLUSH_SIZE(r13) + srdi r11,r11,(7 + 3) /* 128 byte lines, unrolled 8x */ mtctr r11 DCBT_STOP_ALL_STREAM_IDS(r11) /* Stop prefetch streams */
/* order ld/st prior to dcbt stop all streams with flushing */ sync -1: li r8,0 - .rept 8 /* 8-way set associative */ - ldx r11,r10,r8 - add r8,r8,r12 - xor r11,r11,r11 // Ensure r11 is 0 even if fallback area is not - add r8,r8,r11 // Add 0, this creates a dependency on the ldx - .endr - addi r10,r10,128 /* 128 byte cache line */ + + /* + * The load adresses are at staggered offsets within cachelines, + * which suits some pipelines better (on others it should not + * hurt). + */ +1: + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*0(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*1(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*2(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*3(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*4(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*5(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*6(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*7(r10) + addi r10,r10,0x80*8 bdnz 1b
mtctr r9 ld r9,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R9(r13) ld r10,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R10(r13) ld r11,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R11(r13) - ld r12,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R12(r13) - ld r8,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R13(r13) GET_SCRATCH0(r13); rfid
@@ -1645,39 +1643,37 @@ hrfi_flush_fallback: std r9,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R9(r13) std r10,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R10(r13) std r11,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R11(r13) - std r12,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R12(r13) - std r8,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R13(r13) mfctr r9 ld r10,PACA_RFI_FLUSH_FALLBACK_AREA(r13) - ld r11,PACA_L1D_FLUSH_SETS(r13) - ld r12,PACA_L1D_FLUSH_CONGRUENCE(r13) - /* - * The load adresses are at staggered offsets within cachelines, - * which suits some pipelines better (on others it should not - * hurt). - */ - addi r12,r12,8 + ld r11,PACA_L1D_FLUSH_SIZE(r13) + srdi r11,r11,(7 + 3) /* 128 byte lines, unrolled 8x */ mtctr r11 DCBT_STOP_ALL_STREAM_IDS(r11) /* Stop prefetch streams */
/* order ld/st prior to dcbt stop all streams with flushing */ sync -1: li r8,0 - .rept 8 /* 8-way set associative */ - ldx r11,r10,r8 - add r8,r8,r12 - xor r11,r11,r11 // Ensure r11 is 0 even if fallback area is not - add r8,r8,r11 // Add 0, this creates a dependency on the ldx - .endr - addi r10,r10,128 /* 128 byte cache line */ + + /* + * The load adresses are at staggered offsets within cachelines, + * which suits some pipelines better (on others it should not + * hurt). + */ +1: + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*0(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*1(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*2(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*3(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*4(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*5(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*6(r10) + ld r11,(0x80 + 8)*7(r10) + addi r10,r10,0x80*8 bdnz 1b
mtctr r9 ld r9,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R9(r13) ld r10,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R10(r13) ld r11,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R11(r13) - ld r12,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R12(r13) - ld r8,PACA_EXRFI+EX_R13(r13) GET_SCRATCH0(r13); hrfid
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c @@ -745,19 +745,8 @@ static void init_fallback_flush(void) memset(l1d_flush_fallback_area, 0, l1d_size * 2);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { - /* - * The fallback flush is currently coded for 8-way - * associativity. Different associativity is possible, but it - * will be treated as 8-way and may not evict the lines as - * effectively. - * - * 128 byte lines are mandatory. - */ - u64 c = l1d_size / 8; - paca[cpu].rfi_flush_fallback_area = l1d_flush_fallback_area; - paca[cpu].l1d_flush_congruence = c; - paca[cpu].l1d_flush_sets = c / 128; + paca[cpu].l1d_flush_size = l1d_size; } }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe@ellerman.id.au are
queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-simple-rfi-macro-conversions.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-improve-rfi-l1-d-cache-flush-fallback.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-64s-fix-conversion-of-slb_miss_common-to-use-rfi_to_user-kernel.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-perf-fix-oops-when-grouping-different-pmu-events.patch