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 C9F67EF99F9 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=Ae7jkpxTm9oRIa8vR5DG/aPE45z0hnydiwv9bczENao=; b=eQErVRkoM2ArglMNAYRFFi77Ea 4Ogcik350nbyUff15Qqnu7FWqubiQgHSTvpDDAY9Mqf1wcU4NXyvCs60ymj/Ni5lScQUrxeh0MfjL vTabq56KDNiVyp1rWcKYLUDmpJ2FQ2066c8mMPggY+36Zvybu8Fmol9JgCOY1DQj0xoryzJ3cSaxC pOWAkK7lyzXJa/Yq9+48sZxNqaUSbQ5E0Bm2SV7PhNi9Lu0zaYdNciAB8L1x31/4AOwObH4eDpusm gIdjYRTpR5H7h+3UVMQXt7+WQmxfQv5btrC59xDV7KIsBfuj3AyjbSUwvOLjtmiRxuo/7iJu3tiRg e02DzZXQ==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vsLEv-00000008KcL-3bqT; 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 1vsLEr-00000008KZR-33D7 for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:35:43 +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 7658A1655; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:35:34 -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 15EC73F632; Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:35:38 -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 2/3] arm64: mm: Batch dsb and isb when populating pgtables Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:35:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20260217133527.2881603-3-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_053541_909038_3CB7CD28 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.18 ) 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 1fcb7cea8a5f7747e02230f816c2c80b060d9517 ] 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 Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama Tested-by: Eric Chanudet Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412131908.433043-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon [ Ryan: Trivial backport ] Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts --- 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 62326f249aa71..3ea0c9768c4c9 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -261,9 +261,14 @@ 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 b193ea2c0a629..ca06b5e131e0f 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -175,7 +175,11 @@ static void init_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, do { pte_t old_pte = READ_ONCE(*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 @@ -229,6 +233,11 @@ 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(); } -- 2.43.0