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powerpc/mm: convert tlbie to tlbiel when no batch is active

PATCH Applied Balbir Singh 2 participants 2 messages May 25, 2017 – Jun 8, 2017 PowerPC

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PATCH v2 1/1 powerpc/mm: convert tlbie to tlbiel when no batch is active

Do the checks that __flush_tlb_pending() does and check if a local flush will do when batch->active is false inside of hpte_need_flush(). I've checked the changes with tlbie tracing, I see local flushes as applicable now and I've also run some basic ltp testcases on top of these changes on a powernv machine.

Signed-off-by Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c +5 -4
index 4517aa4..b655c3b 100644
@@ -93,12 +93,13 @@ void hpte_need_flush(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 
 	/*
 	 * Check if we have an active batch on this CPU. If not, just
-	 * flush now and return. For now, we don global invalidates
-	 * in that case, might be worth testing the mm cpu mask though
-	 * and decide to use local invalidates instead...
+	 * flush now and return.
 	 */
 	if (!batch->active) {
-		flush_hash_page(vpn, rpte, psize, ssize, 0);
+		int local = 0;
+		if (mm_is_thread_local(mm))
+			local = 1;
+		flush_hash_page(vpn, rpte, psize, ssize, local);
 		put_cpu_var(ppc64_tlb_batch);
 		return;
 	}
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Quoted 8 lines · Balbir Singh

Do the checks that __flush_tlb_pending() does and check if a local flush will do when batch->active is false inside of hpte_need_flush(). I've checked the changes with tlbie tracing, I see local flushes as applicable now and I've also run some basic ltp testcases on top of these changes on a powernv machine.

Signed-off-by Balbir Singh <[email protected]>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/c5cee6421cd651446b93c231f0ab8f

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