Re: [v4,17/21] powerpc/8xx: set PTE bit 22 off TLBmiss

From: Scott Wood
Date: Thu Nov 06 2014 - 22:38:01 EST


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:36:09AM +0200, LEROY Christophe wrote:
> No need to re-set this bit at each TLB miss. Let's set it in the PTE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - None
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Removed PPC405 related macro from PPC8xx specific code
> - PTE_NONE_MASK doesn't need PAGE_ACCESSED in Linux 2.6
>
> Changes in v4:
> - None
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h | 7 +++++--
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 10 ++--------
> 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
> index 47edde8..35a9b44 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
> @@ -172,6 +172,25 @@ static inline unsigned long pte_update(pte_t *p,
> #ifdef PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES
> unsigned long old, tmp;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_8xx
> + unsigned long tmp2;
> +
> + __asm__ __volatile__("\
> +1: lwarx %0,0,%4\n\
> + andc %1,%0,%5\n\
> + or %1,%1,%6\n\
> + /* 0x200 == Extended encoding, bit 22 */ \
> + /* Bit 22 has to be 1 if neither _PAGE_USER nor _PAGE_RW are set */ \
> + rlwimi %1,%1,32-2,0x200\n /* get _PAGE_USER */ \
> + rlwinm %3,%1,32-1,0x200\n /* get _PAGE_RW */ \
> + or %1,%3,%1\n\
> + xori %1,%1,0x200\n"
> +" stwcx. %1,0,%4\n\
> + bne- 1b"

Why do you need this...

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h
> index d44826e..daa4616 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h
> @@ -48,19 +48,22 @@
> */
> #define _PAGE_RW 0x0400 /* lsb PP bits, inverted in HW */
> #define _PAGE_USER 0x0800 /* msb PP bits */
> +/* set when neither _PAGE_USER nor _PAGE_RW are set */
> +#define _PAGE_KNLRO 0x0200
>
> #define _PMD_PRESENT 0x0001
> #define _PMD_BAD 0x0ff0
> #define _PMD_PAGE_MASK 0x000c
> #define _PMD_PAGE_8M 0x000c
>
> -#define _PTE_NONE_MASK _PAGE_ACCESSED
> +#define _PTE_NONE_MASK _PAGE_KNLRO
>
> /* Until my rework is finished, 8xx still needs atomic PTE updates */
> #define PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES 1
>
> /* We need to add _PAGE_SHARED to kernel pages */
> -#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO (_PAGE_SHARED)
> +#define _PAGE_KERNEL_RO (_PAGE_SHARED | _PAGE_KNLRO)
> +#define _PAGE_KERNEL_ROX (_PAGE_EXEC | _PAGE_KNLRO)
> #define _PAGE_KERNEL_RW (_PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_RW | _PAGE_HWWRITE)

...if 0x200 is already being set in the PTE here?

-Scott
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