csky: mmu: Prevent spurious page faults
authorGuo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Thu, 6 Apr 2023 08:46:49 +0000 (04:46 -0400)
committerGuo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:36:14 +0000 (02:36 -0400)
commit1f62ed00a56bf01becaccd81bf30f2fcb0322fd2
tree07a1de94dab5df8fa540b11facf1b0ecd1b84866
parent74c53b5717ba762d8648ee9e3d961093df2d7300
csky: mmu: Prevent spurious page faults

C-SKY MMU would pre-fetch invalid pte entries, and it could work with
flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault, but the additional page fault exceptions
would reduce performance. So flushing the entry of the TLB would prevent
the following spurious page faults. Here is the test code:

define DATA_LEN  4096
define COPY_NUM  (504*100)

unsigned char src[DATA_LEN*COPY_NUM] = {0};
unsigned char dst[DATA_LEN*COPY_NUM] = {0};

unsigned char func_src[DATA_LEN*COPY_NUM] = {0};
unsigned char func_dst[DATA_LEN*COPY_NUM] = {0};

void main(void)
{
int j;
for (j = 0; j < COPY_NUM; j++)
memcpy(&dst[j*DATA_LEN], &src[j*DATA_LEN], 4);
}

perf stat -e page-faults ./main.elf

The amount of page fault traps would be reduced in half with the patch.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
arch/csky/abiv1/cacheflush.c
arch/csky/abiv2/cacheflush.c