x86/mm: PCID
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Andy Lutomirski
maintainerv5 cover x86/mm: PCID
Here's PCID v5.
Changes from v4:
- Remove smp_mb__after_atomic() (Peterz)
- Rebase, which involved tiny fixups due to SME
- Add the doc patch, as promised
Andy Lutomirski (2):
x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID x86/mm: Improve TLB flush documentation
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 18 ++++- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 5 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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Andy Lutomirski
maintainerPATCH v5 1/2 x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
PCID is a "process context ID" -- it's what other architectures call an address space ID. Every non-global TLB entry is tagged with a PCID, only TLB entries that match the currently selected PCID are used, and we can switch PGDs without flushing the TLB. x86's PCID is 12 bits.
This is an unorthodox approach to using PCID. x86's PCID is far too short to uniquely identify a process, and we can't even really uniquely identify a running process because there are monster systems with over 4096 CPUs. To make matters worse, past attempts to use all 12 PCID bits have resulted in slowdowns instead of speedups.
This patch uses PCID differently. We use a PCID to identify a recently-used mm on a per-cpu basis. An mm has no fixed PCID binding at all; instead, we give it a fresh PCID each time it's loaded except in cases where we want to preserve the TLB, in which case we reuse a recent value.
Here are some benchmark results, done on a Skylake laptop at 2.3 GHz (turbo off, intel_pstate requesting max performance) under KVM with the guest using idle=poll (to avoid artifacts when bouncing between CPUs). I haven't done any real statistics here -- I just ran them in a loop and picked the fastest results that didn't look like outliers. Unpatched means commit a4eb8b993554, so all the bookkeeping overhead is gone.
ping-pong between two mms on the same CPU using eventfd:
patched: 1.22Aus
patched, nopcid: 1.33Aus
unpatched: 1.34Aus
Same ping-pong, but now touch 512 pages (all zero-page to minimize cache misses) each iteration. dTLB misses are measured by dtlb_load_misses.miss_causes_a_walk:
patched: 1.8Aus 11M dTLB misses
patched, nopcid: 6.2Aus, 207M dTLB misses
unpatched: 6.1Aus, 190M dTLB misses
--- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 3 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 18 +++++++- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +3 -0
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ static inline unsigned long __get_current_cr3_fast(void) {unsigned long cr3 =__pa (this_cpu_read (cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm)->pgd); +if (static_cpu_has (X86_FEATURE_PCID )) + cr3 |=this_cpu_read (cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm_asid); +/* For now, be very restrictive about when this can be called. */ VM_WARN_ON (in_nmi () || !in_atomic ());
arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h +2 -0
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@/* Mask off the address space ID and SME encryption bits. */ #define CR3_ADDR_MASK __sme_clr(0x7FFFFFFFFFFFF000ull)#define CR3_PCID_MASK 0xFFFull +#define CR3_NOFLUSH (1UL << 63)#else /* * CR3_ADDR_MASK needs at least bits 31:5 set on PAE systems, and we save
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@*/ #define CR3_ADDR_MASK 0xFFFFFFFFull#define CR3_PCID_MASK 0ull +#define CR3_NOFLUSH 0#endif #endif /* _ASM_X86_PROCESSOR_FLAGS_H */
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +16 -2
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm)#define __flush_tlb_single (addr) __native_flush_tlb_single(addr)#endif +/* +* 6 because 6 should be plenty and struct tlb_state will fit in +* two cache lines. +*/ +#define TLB_NR_DYN_ASIDS 6 +struct tlb_context {u64 ctx_id;u64 tlb_gen;
@@ -95,6 +101,8 @@ struct tlb_state {* mode even if we've already switched back to swapper_pg_dir. */ struct mm_struct *loaded_mm; +u16 loaded_mm_asid; +u16 next_asid;/* * Access to this CR4 shadow and to H/W CR4 is protected by
@@ -104,7 +112,8 @@ struct tlb_state {/* * This is a list of all contexts that might exist in the TLB. -* Since we don't yet use PCID, there is only one context. +* There is one per ASID that we use, and the ASID (what the +* CPU calls PCID) is the index into ctxts. * * For each context, ctx_id indicates which mm the TLB's user * entries came from. As an invariant, the TLB will never
@@ -114,8 +123,13 @@ struct tlb_state {* To be clear, this means that it's legal for the TLB code to * flush the TLB without updating tlb_gen. This can happen * (for now, at least) due to paravirt remote flushes. +* +* NB: context 0 is a bit special, since it's also used by +* various bits of init code. This is fine -- code that +* isn't aware of PCID will end up harmlessly flushing +* context 0. */ -struct tlb_context ctxs[1 ]; +struct tlb_context ctxs[TLB_NR_DYN_ASIDS ]; }; DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate);
arch/x86/mm/init.c +1 -0
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ void __init zone_sizes_init(void) DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate) = { .loaded_mm = &init_mm, + .next_asid =1 , .cr4 = ~0UL ,/* fail hard if we screw up cr4 shadow initialization */ };EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (cpu_tlbstate);
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +64 -16
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merge bot[tip:x86/mm] x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
Commit-ID: 10af6235e0d327d42e1bad974385197817923dc1 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/10af6235e0d327d42e1bad974385197817923dc1 Author: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:41:38 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:16:12 +0200
x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
PCID is a "process context ID" -- it's what other architectures call an address space ID. Every non-global TLB entry is tagged with a PCID, only TLB entries that match the currently selected PCID are used, and we can switch PGDs without flushing the TLB. x86's PCID is 12 bits.
This is an unorthodox approach to using PCID. x86's PCID is far too short to uniquely identify a process, and we can't even really uniquely identify a running process because there are monster systems with over 4096 CPUs. To make matters worse, past attempts to use all 12 PCID bits have resulted in slowdowns instead of speedups.
This patch uses PCID differently. We use a PCID to identify a recently-used mm on a per-cpu basis. An mm has no fixed PCID binding at all; instead, we give it a fresh PCID each time it's loaded except in cases where we want to preserve the TLB, in which case we reuse a recent value.
Here are some benchmark results, done on a Skylake laptop at 2.3 GHz (turbo off, intel_pstate requesting max performance) under KVM with the guest using idle=poll (to avoid artifacts when bouncing between CPUs). I haven't done any real statistics here -- I just ran them in a loop and picked the fastest results that didn't look like outliers. Unpatched means commit a4eb8b993554, so all the bookkeeping overhead is gone.
ping-pong between two mms on the same CPU using eventfd:
patched: 1.22µs
patched, nopcid: 1.33µs
unpatched: 1.34µs
Same ping-pong, but now touch 512 pages (all zero-page to minimize cache misses) each iteration. dTLB misses are measured by dtlb_load_misses.miss_causes_a_walk:
patched: 1.8µs 11M dTLB misses
patched, nopcid: 6.2µs, 207M dTLB misses
unpatched: 6.1µs, 190M dTLB misses
--- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 3 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 18 +++++++- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 1 + arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +3 -0
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ static inline unsigned long __get_current_cr3_fast(void) {unsigned long cr3 =__pa (this_cpu_read (cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm)->pgd); +if (static_cpu_has (X86_FEATURE_PCID )) + cr3 |=this_cpu_read (cpu_tlbstate.loaded_mm_asid); +/* For now, be very restrictive about when this can be called. */ VM_WARN_ON (in_nmi () || !in_atomic ());
arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h +2 -0
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@/* Mask off the address space ID and SME encryption bits. */ #define CR3_ADDR_MASK __sme_clr(0x7FFFFFFFFFFFF000ull)#define CR3_PCID_MASK 0xFFFull +#define CR3_NOFLUSH (1UL << 63)#else /* * CR3_ADDR_MASK needs at least bits 31:5 set on PAE systems, and we save
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@*/ #define CR3_ADDR_MASK 0xFFFFFFFFull#define CR3_PCID_MASK 0ull +#define CR3_NOFLUSH 0#endif #endif /* _ASM_X86_PROCESSOR_FLAGS_H */
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +16 -2
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ static inline u64 inc_mm_tlb_gen(struct mm_struct *mm)#define __flush_tlb_single (addr) __native_flush_tlb_single(addr)#endif +/* +* 6 because 6 should be plenty and struct tlb_state will fit in +* two cache lines. +*/ +#define TLB_NR_DYN_ASIDS 6 +struct tlb_context {u64 ctx_id;u64 tlb_gen;
@@ -95,6 +101,8 @@ struct tlb_state {* mode even if we've already switched back to swapper_pg_dir. */ struct mm_struct *loaded_mm; +u16 loaded_mm_asid; +u16 next_asid;/* * Access to this CR4 shadow and to H/W CR4 is protected by
@@ -104,7 +112,8 @@ struct tlb_state {/* * This is a list of all contexts that might exist in the TLB. -* Since we don't yet use PCID, there is only one context. +* There is one per ASID that we use, and the ASID (what the +* CPU calls PCID) is the index into ctxts. * * For each context, ctx_id indicates which mm the TLB's user * entries came from. As an invariant, the TLB will never
@@ -114,8 +123,13 @@ struct tlb_state {* To be clear, this means that it's legal for the TLB code to * flush the TLB without updating tlb_gen. This can happen * (for now, at least) due to paravirt remote flushes. +* +* NB: context 0 is a bit special, since it's also used by +* various bits of init code. This is fine -- code that +* isn't aware of PCID will end up harmlessly flushing +* context 0. */ -struct tlb_context ctxs[1 ]; +struct tlb_context ctxs[TLB_NR_DYN_ASIDS ]; }; DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate);
arch/x86/mm/init.c +1 -0
@@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ void __init zone_sizes_init(void) DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tlb_state, cpu_tlbstate) = { .loaded_mm = &init_mm, + .next_asid =1 , .cr4 = ~0UL ,/* fail hard if we screw up cr4 shadow initialization */ };EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL (cpu_tlbstate);
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +64 -16
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Andy Lutomirski
maintainerPATCH v5 2/2 x86/mm: Improve TLB flush documentation
In reply to Andy LutomirskiImprove comments as requested by PeterZ and also add some documentation at the top of the file.
--- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +33 -10
@@ -15,17 +15,24 @@#include <linux/debugfs.h> /* -* TLB flushing, formerly SMP-only -* c/o Linus Torvalds. +* The code in this file handles mm switches and TLB flushes. * -* These mean you can really definitely utterly forget about -* writing to user space from interrupts. (Its not allowed anyway). +* An mm's TLB state is logically represented by a totally ordered sequence +* of TLB flushes. Each flush increments the mm's tlb_gen. * -* Optimizations Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> +* Each CPU that might have an mm in its TLB (and that might ever use +* those TLB entries) will have an entry for it in its cpu_tlbstate.ctxs +* array. The kernel maintains the following invariant: for each CPU and +* for each mm in its cpu_tlbstate.ctxs array, the CPU has performed all +* flushes in that mms history up to the tlb_gen in cpu_tlbstate.ctxs +* or the CPU has performed an equivalent set of flushes. * -* More scalable flush, from Andi Kleen -* -* Implement flush IPI by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR, Alex Shi +* For this purpose, an equivalent set is a set that is at least as strong. +* So, for example, if the flush history is a full flush at time 1, +* a full flush after time 1 is sufficient, but a full flush before time 1 +* is not. Similarly, any number of flushes can be replaced by a single +* full flush so long as that replacement flush is after all the flushes +* that it's replacing. */ atomic64_t last_mm_ctx_id =ATOMIC64_INIT (1 );
@@ -138,7 +145,16 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,return ; } -/* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. */ +/* +* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. The +* implied barrier in atomic64_read() synchronizes +* with inc_mm_tlb_gen() like this: +* +* switch_mm_irqs_off(): flush request: +* cpumask_set_cpu(...); inc_mm_tlb_gen(); +* MB MB +* atomic64_read(.tlb_gen); flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask()); +*/ cpumask_set_cpu (cpu,mm_cpumask (next)); next_tlb_gen =atomic64_read (&next->context.tlb_gen);
@@ -186,7 +202,14 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,VM_WARN_ON_ONCE (cpumask_test_cpu (cpu,mm_cpumask (next)));/* -* Start remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. +* Start remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. As +* above, the implied barrier in atomic64_read() +* synchronizes with inc_mm_tlb_gen() like this: +* +* switch_mm_irqs_off(): flush request: +* cpumask_set_cpu(...); inc_mm_tlb_gen(); +* MB MB +* atomic64_read(.tlb_gen); flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask()); */ cpumask_set_cpu (cpu,mm_cpumask (next)); next_tlb_gen =atomic64_read (&next->context.tlb_gen);
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Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/mm: Improve TLB flush documentation
Quoted 46 lines · Andy Lutomirski
Improve comments as requested by PeterZ and also add some documentation at the top of the file.
Signed-off-by Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>---
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c| 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +15
-8@@ -15,17 +15,24 @@#include <linux/debugfs.h> /* -* TLB flushing, formerly SMP-only -* c/o Linus Torvalds. +* The code in this file handles mm switches and TLB flushes. * -* These mean you can really definitely utterly forget about -* writing to user space from interrupts. (Its not allowed anyway). +* An mm's TLB state is logically represented by a totally ordered sequence +* of TLB flushes. Each flush increments the mm's tlb_gen. * -* Optimizations Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> +* Each CPU that might have an mm in its TLB (and that might ever use +* those TLB entries) will have an entry for it in its cpu_tlbstate.ctxs +* array. The kernel maintains the following invariant: for each CPU and +* for each mm in its cpu_tlbstate.ctxs array, the CPU has performed all +* flushes in that mms history up to the tlb_gen in cpu_tlbstate.ctxs +* or the CPU has performed an equivalent set of flushes. * -* More scalable flush, from Andi Kleen -* -* Implement flush IPI by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR, Alex Shi +* For this purpose, an equivalent set is a set that is at least as strong. +* So, for example, if the flush history is a full flush at time 1, +* a full flush after time 1 is sufficient, but a full flush before time 1 +* is not. Similarly, any number of flushes can be replaced by a single +* full flush so long as that replacement flush is after all the flushes +* that it's replacing. */ atomic64_t last_mm_ctx_id =ATOMIC64_INIT (1 );
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, · line 151
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arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +4
-1@@ -138,7 +145,16 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,return ; } -/* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. */ +/* +* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. The +* implied barrier in atomic64_read() synchronizes +* with inc_mm_tlb_gen() like this:
You mean the implied memory barrier in cpumask_set_cpu(), no?
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Andy Lutomirski
maintainerRe: [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/mm: Improve TLB flush documentation
Quoted 51 lines · Nadav Amit
Quoted 49 lines · Andy Lutomirski
Improve comments as requested by PeterZ and also add some documentation at the top of the file.
Signed-off-by Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>---
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c| 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +15
-8@@ -15,17 +15,24 @@#include <linux/debugfs.h> /* -* TLB flushing, formerly SMP-only -* c/o Linus Torvalds. +* The code in this file handles mm switches and TLB flushes. * -* These mean you can really definitely utterly forget about -* writing to user space from interrupts. (Its not allowed anyway). +* An mm's TLB state is logically represented by a totally ordered sequence +* of TLB flushes. Each flush increments the mm's tlb_gen. * -* Optimizations Manfred Spraul <[email protected]> +* Each CPU that might have an mm in its TLB (and that might ever use +* those TLB entries) will have an entry for it in its cpu_tlbstate.ctxs +* array. The kernel maintains the following invariant: for each CPU and +* for each mm in its cpu_tlbstate.ctxs array, the CPU has performed all +* flushes in that mms history up to the tlb_gen in cpu_tlbstate.ctxs +* or the CPU has performed an equivalent set of flushes. * -* More scalable flush, from Andi Kleen -* -* Implement flush IPI by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR, Alex Shi +* For this purpose, an equivalent set is a set that is at least as strong. +* So, for example, if the flush history is a full flush at time 1, +* a full flush after time 1 is sufficient, but a full flush before time 1 +* is not. Similarly, any number of flushes can be replaced by a single +* full flush so long as that replacement flush is after all the flushes +* that it's replacing. */ atomic64_t last_mm_ctx_id =ATOMIC64_INIT (1 );@@ -138,7 +145,16 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,return ; }
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arch/x86/mm/tlb.c void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, · line 151
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arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +4
-1-/* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. */ +/* +* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. The +* implied barrier in atomic64_read() synchronizes +* with inc_mm_tlb_gen() like this: You mean the implied memory barrier in
cpumask_set_cpu(), no?
Ugh, yes. And I misread PeterZ's email and incorrectly removed the smp_mb__after_atomic(). I'll respin this patch.
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Peter Zijlstra
maintainerRe: [PATCH v5 2/2] x86/mm: Improve TLB flush documentation
In reply to Andy Lutomirskiarch/x86/mm/tlb.c void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, · line 150
Quoted 3 lines · Andy Lutomirski
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +3
-0+/* +* Resume remote flushes and then read tlb_gen. The +* implied barrier in atomic64_read() synchronizes
There is no barrier in atomic64_read().
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, · line 159
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arch/x86/mm/tlb.c +7
-0+* with inc_mm_tlb_gen() like this: +* +* switch_mm_irqs_off(): flush request: +* cpumask_set_cpu(...); inc_mm_tlb_gen(); +* MB MB +* atomic64_read(.tlb_gen); flush_tlb_others(mm_cpumask()); +*/ cpumask_set_cpu (cpu,mm_cpumask (next)); next_tlb_gen =atomic64_read (&next->context.tlb_gen);
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