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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/64s: context switch leave interrupts hard enabled for radix
Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2017 01:36:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170608153609.19217-1-npiggin@gmail.com> (raw)

Commit 4387e9ff25 ("[POWERPC] Fix PMU + soft interrupt disable bug")
hard disabled interrupts over the low level context switch, because
the SLB management can't cope with a PMU interrupt accesing the stack
in that window.

Radix based kernel mapping does not use the SLB so it does not require
interrupts hard disabled here.

This is worth 1-2% in context switch performance on POWER9.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S |  8 ++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c  | 14 ++++++++------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 6f70ea821a07..91f9fdc2d027 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -607,6 +607,14 @@ END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(MMU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT)
 	   top of the kernel stack. */
 	addi	r7,r7,THREAD_SIZE-SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE
 
+	/*
+	 * PMU interrupts in radix may come in here. They will use r1, not
+	 * PACAKSAVE, so this stack switch will not cause a problem. They
+	 * will store to the process stack, which may then be migrated to
+	 * another CPU. However the rq lock release on this CPU paired with
+	 * the rq lock acquire on the new CPU before the stack becomes
+	 * active on the new CPU, will order those stores.
+	 */
 	mr	r1,r8		/* start using new stack pointer */
 	std	r7,PACAKSAVE(r13)
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 5cbb8b1faf7e..45faa9a32a01 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1199,12 +1199,14 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
 
 	__switch_to_tm(prev, new);
 
-	/*
-	 * We can't take a PMU exception inside _switch() since there is a
-	 * window where the kernel stack SLB and the kernel stack are out
-	 * of sync. Hard disable here.
-	 */
-	hard_irq_disable();
+	if (!radix_enabled()) {
+		/*
+		 * We can't take a PMU exception inside _switch() since there
+		 * is a window where the kernel stack SLB and the kernel stack
+		 * are out of sync. Hard disable here.
+		 */
+		hard_irq_disable();
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Call restore_sprs() before calling _switch(). If we move it after
-- 
2.11.0

             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-08 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-08 15:36 Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2017-06-08 15:36 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: context switch avoid reservation-clearing instruction Nicholas Piggin
2017-06-14 13:07   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-08 15:36 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/64: context switch an hwsync instruction can be avoided Nicholas Piggin
2017-06-08 20:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-06-08 15:36 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: context switch avoid cpabort Nicholas Piggin
2017-06-19 12:25 ` [1/4] powerpc/64s: context switch leave interrupts hard enabled for radix Michael Ellerman

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