From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38961E81A32 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:35:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From: Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=ZkX+iYHWc7gdjdbYDpGLwv+2w7LfaTWMpWzU0PZn8jw=; b=ENIgLyZaoNl0y1cT3o+DXJEgxy V5HvSO1LuvIXnrqg8AhgCGt/IjHuTvzjz4F6rMVcs/UK2v9IQaDY2oSzZ1224vt9ckV0I8rlVHZ+X ldSsuGYKEoSINBSsI8PZNva5ased1hciRX/cnV4p4VpUMT94/uYCApllM8CSJzUocr6SymmXe5t2N T/Ni8LoY/w4uZWeynUxCIK5ZxIV2C4HYzMCdQ99WeC4duaClHTEwnKVqSc7xCB//czNSLQvoUj+vZ XBMZpv9GnEnOZLAAtzMvqCkYpiL/l6Raiv+R6F4sGz5HpjeEtSvnOJ638ghwJXYgT6wpM7jvg/MNV YQGAjXJg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vsLEv-00000008Kbm-1Ym5; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:35:45 +0000 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vsLEp-00000008KY2-1uQs for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:35:40 +0000 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AB21650; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from e125769.cambridge.arm.com (e125769.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.196.27]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 231DD3F632; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: Ryan Roberts To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ryan Roberts , catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jack Aboutboul , Sharath George John , Noah Meyerhans , Jim Perrin , Itaru Kitayama , Eric Chanudet , Mark Rutland , Ard Biesheuvel Subject: [PATCH 6.1 1/3] arm64: mm: Don't remap pgtables per-cont(pte|pmd) block Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:35:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20260217133527.2881603-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260217133527.2881603-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com> References: <20260217133527.2881603-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260217_053539_592604_8A76E4ED X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 13.93 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org [ Upstream commit 5c63db59c5f89925add57642be4f789d0d671ccd ] A large part of the kernel boot time is creating the kernel linear map page tables. When rodata=full, all memory is mapped by pte. And when there is lots of physical ram, there are lots of pte tables to populate. The primary cost associated with this is mapping and unmapping the pte table memory in the fixmap; at unmap time, the TLB entry must be invalidated and this is expensive. Previously, each pmd and pte table was fixmapped/fixunmapped for each cont(pte|pmd) block of mappings (16 entries with 4K granule). This means we ended up issuing 32 TLBIs per (pmd|pte) table during the population phase. Let's fix that, and fixmap/fixunmap each page once per population, for a saving of 31 TLBIs per (pmd|pte) table. This gives a significant boot speedup. 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 | 168 (0%) | 2198 (0%) | 8644 (0%) | 17447 (0%) after | 78 (-53%) | 435 (-80%) | 1723 (-80%) | 3779 (-78%) Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama Tested-by: Eric Chanudet Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412131908.433043-2-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon [ Ryan: Trivial backport ] Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts --- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 27 ++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index e9288b28cb1e3..b193ea2c0a629 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -169,12 +169,9 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new) return ((old ^ new) & ~mask) == 0; } -static void init_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, +static void init_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot) { - pte_t *ptep; - - ptep = pte_set_fixmap_offset(pmdp, addr); do { pte_t old_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep); @@ -189,8 +186,6 @@ static void init_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, phys += PAGE_SIZE; } while (ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); - - pte_clear_fixmap(); } static void alloc_init_cont_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, @@ -201,6 +196,7 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, { unsigned long next; pmd_t pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp); + pte_t *ptep; BUG_ON(pmd_sect(pmd)); if (pmd_none(pmd)) { @@ -216,6 +212,7 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, } BUG_ON(pmd_bad(pmd)); + ptep = pte_set_fixmap_offset(pmdp, addr); do { pgprot_t __prot = prot; @@ -226,20 +223,21 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pte(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, (flags & NO_CONT_MAPPINGS) == 0) __prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | PTE_CONT); - init_pte(pmdp, addr, next, phys, __prot); + init_pte(ptep, addr, next, phys, __prot); + ptep += pte_index(next) - pte_index(addr); phys += next - addr; } while (addr = next, addr != end); + + pte_clear_fixmap(); } -static void init_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, +static void init_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot, phys_addr_t (*pgtable_alloc)(int), int flags) { unsigned long next; - pmd_t *pmdp; - pmdp = pmd_set_fixmap_offset(pudp, addr); do { pmd_t old_pmd = READ_ONCE(*pmdp); @@ -265,8 +263,6 @@ static void init_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, } phys += next - addr; } while (pmdp++, addr = next, addr != end); - - pmd_clear_fixmap(); } static void alloc_init_cont_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, @@ -276,6 +272,7 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, { unsigned long next; pud_t pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp); + pmd_t *pmdp; /* * Check for initial section mappings in the pgd/pud. @@ -294,6 +291,7 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, } BUG_ON(pud_bad(pud)); + pmdp = pmd_set_fixmap_offset(pudp, addr); do { pgprot_t __prot = prot; @@ -304,10 +302,13 @@ static void alloc_init_cont_pmd(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr, (flags & NO_CONT_MAPPINGS) == 0) __prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | PTE_CONT); - init_pmd(pudp, addr, next, phys, __prot, pgtable_alloc, flags); + init_pmd(pmdp, addr, next, phys, __prot, pgtable_alloc, flags); + pmdp += pmd_index(next) - pmd_index(addr); phys += next - addr; } while (addr = next, addr != end); + + pmd_clear_fixmap(); } static void alloc_init_pud(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, -- 2.43.0