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In the case of a spurious fault (which can happen due to a race with
another thread that changes the page table), the default Linux mm code
calls flush_tlb_page for that address. This is not required because
the pte will be re-fetched. Hash does not wire this up to a hardware
TLB flush for this reason. 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 Refer- ence 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.
The nest MMU on POWER9 does not re-fetch the PTE after such an access
attempt before faulting, so address spaces with a coprocessor
attached will continue to flush in these cases.
This reduces tlbies for a kernel compile workload from 0.95M to 0.90M.
fork --fork --exec benchmark improved 0.5% (12300->12400).
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.