[j][linux-aws][PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: Batch dsb and isb when populating pgtables

[Philip Cox]

From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069352

After removing uneccessary TLBIs, the next bottleneck when creating the
page tables for the linear map is DSB and ISB, which were previously
issued per-pte in __set_pte(). Since we are writing multiple ptes in a
given pte table, we can elide these barriers and insert them once we
have finished writing to the table.

Execution time of map_mem(), which creates the kernel linear map page
tables, was measured on different machines with different RAM configs:

               | Apple M2 VM | Ampere Altra| Ampere Altra| Ampere Altra
               | VM, 16G     | VM, 64G     | VM, 256G    | Metal, 512G
---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
               |   ms    (%) |   ms    (%) |   ms    (%) |    ms    (%)
---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
before         |   78   (0%) |  435   (0%) | 1723   (0%) |  3779   (0%)
after          |   11 (-86%) |  161 (-63%) |  656 (-62%) |  1654 (-56%)

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama at fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412131908.433043-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
(backported from commit 1fcb7cea8a5f7747e02230f816c2c80b060d9517
[context changes in init_pte(), replaced __set_pte() with set_pte()])
Signed-off-by: Philip Cox <philip.cox at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  7 ++++++-
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c              | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index b5e969bc074d..8be993e49356 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -252,9 +252,14 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkdevmap(pte_t pte)
 	return set_pte_bit(pte, __pgprot(PTE_DEVMAP | PTE_SPECIAL));
 }
 
-static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+static inline void __set_pte_nosync(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 {
 	WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
+}
+
+static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+	__set_pte_nosync(ptep, pte);
 
 	/*
 	 * Only if the new pte is valid and kernel, otherwise TLB maintenance
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 82ecfae0c9fe..c480447cbb98 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -159,7 +159,11 @@ static void init_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	do {
 		pte_t old_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
 
-		set_pte(ptep, pfn_pte(__phys_to_pfn(phys), prot));
+		/*
+		 * Required barriers to make this visible to the table walker
+		 * are deferred to the end of alloc_init_cont_pte().
+		 */
+		__set_pte_nosync(ptep, pfn_pte(__phys_to_pfn(phys), prot));
 
 		/*
 		 * After the PTE entry has been populated once, we
@@ -213,6 +217,11 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
 		phys += next - addr;
 	} while (addr = next, addr != end);
 
+	/*
+	 * Note: barriers and maintenance necessary to clear the fixmap slot
+	 * ensure that all previous pgtable writes are visible to the table
+	 * walker.
+	 */
 	pte_clear_fixmap();
 }
 
-- 
2.34.1