[PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: mm: Batch dsb and isb when populating pgtables

[Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>]

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@arm.com>
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.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 afdd56d26ad7..105a95a8845c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -271,9 +271,14 @@ 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 9f1d69b7b494..ac88b89770a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -178,7 +178,11 @@ static void init_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	do {
 		pte_t old_pte = __ptep_get(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
@@ -232,6 +236,11 @@ 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();
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1


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