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2024-01-11riscv: Add support for BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSHAlexandre Ghiti1-1/+1
Allow to defer the flushing of the TLB when unmapping pages, which allows to reduce the numbers of IPI and the number of sfence.vma. The ubenchmarch used in commit 43b3dfdd0455 ("arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration") that was multithreaded to force the usage of IPI shows good performance improvement on all platforms: * Unmatched: ~34% * TH1520 : ~78% * Qemu : ~81% In addition, perf on qemu reports an important decrease in time spent dealing with IPIs: Before: 68.17% main [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __sbi_rfence_v02_call After : 8.64% main [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __sbi_rfence_v02_call * Benchmark: int stick_this_thread_to_core(int core_id) { int num_cores = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); if (core_id < 0 || core_id >= num_cores) return EINVAL; cpu_set_t cpuset; CPU_ZERO(&cpuset); CPU_SET(core_id, &cpuset); pthread_t current_thread = pthread_self(); return pthread_setaffinity_np(current_thread, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset); } static void *fn_thread (void *p_data) { int ret; pthread_t thread; stick_this_thread_to_core((int)p_data); while (1) { sleep(1); } return NULL; } int main() { volatile unsigned char *p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); pthread_t threads[4]; int ret; for (int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) { ret = pthread_create(&threads[i], NULL, fn_thread, (void *)i); if (ret) { printf("%s", strerror (ret)); } } memset(p, 0x88, SIZE); for (int k = 0; k < 10000; k++) { /* swap in */ for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i += 4096) { (void)p[i]; } /* swap out */ madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT); } for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { pthread_cancel(threads[i]); } for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) { pthread_join(threads[i], NULL); } return 0; } Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org> # Tested on TH1520 Tested-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240108193640.344929-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2023-09-11Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptionsArd Biesheuvel1-1/+0
Itanium (IA64) is going away, so drop it from the kernel feature documentation. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-08-18arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migrationBarry Song1-1/+1
On x86, batched and deferred tlb shootdown has lead to 90% performance increase on tlb shootdown. on arm64, HW can do tlb shootdown without software IPI. But sync tlbi is still quite expensive. Even running a simplest program which requires swapout can prove this is true, #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <string.h> int main() { #define SIZE (1 * 1024 * 1024) volatile unsigned char *p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); memset(p, 0x88, SIZE); for (int k = 0; k < 10000; k++) { /* swap in */ for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i += 4096) { (void)p[i]; } /* swap out */ madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT); } } Perf result on snapdragon 888 with 8 cores by using zRAM as the swap block device. ~ # perf record taskset -c 4 ./a.out [ perf record: Woken up 10 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 2.297 MB perf.data (60084 samples) ] ~ # perf report # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 60K of event 'cycles' # Event count (approx.): 35706225414 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................. ...... # 21.07% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irq 8.23% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.67% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] filemap_map_pages 6.16% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __zram_bvec_write 5.36% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ptep_clear_flush 3.71% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock 3.49% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset64 1.63% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page 1.42% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock 1.26% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mod_zone_state.llvm.8525150236079521930 1.23% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] xas_load 1.15% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] zram_slot_lock ptep_clear_flush() takes 5.36% CPU in the micro-benchmark swapping in/out a page mapped by only one process. If the page is mapped by multiple processes, typically, like more than 100 on a phone, the overhead would be much higher as we have to run tlb flush 100 times for one single page. Plus, tlb flush overhead will increase with the number of CPU cores due to the bad scalability of tlb shootdown in HW, so those ARM64 servers should expect much higher overhead. Further perf annonate shows 95% cpu time of ptep_clear_flush is actually used by the final dsb() to wait for the completion of tlb flush. This provides us a very good chance to leverage the existing batched tlb in kernel. The minimum modification is that we only send async tlbi in the first stage and we send dsb while we have to sync in the second stage. With the above simplest micro benchmark, collapsed time to finish the program decreases around 5%. Typical collapsed time w/o patch: ~ # time taskset -c 4 ./a.out 0.21user 14.34system 0:14.69elapsed w/ patch: ~ # time taskset -c 4 ./a.out 0.22user 13.45system 0:13.80elapsed Also tested with benchmark in the commit on Kunpeng920 arm64 server and observed an improvement around 12.5% with command `time ./swap_bench`. w/o w/ real 0m13.460s 0m11.771s user 0m0.248s 0m0.279s sys 0m12.039s 0m11.458s Originally it's noticed a 16.99% overhead of ptep_clear_flush() which has been eliminated by this patch: [root@localhost yang]# perf record -- ./swap_bench && perf report [...] 16.99% swap_bench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ptep_clear_flush It is tested on 4,8,128 CPU platforms and shows to be beneficial on large systems but may not have improvement on small systems like on a 4 CPU platform. Also this patch improve the performance of page migration. Using pmbench and tries to migrate the pages of pmbench between node 0 and node 1 for 100 times for 1G memory, this patch decrease the time used around 20% (prev 18.338318910 sec after 13.981866350 sec) and saved the time used by ptep_clear_flush(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230717131004.12662-5-yangyicong@huawei.com Tested-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Tested-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: lipeifeng <lipeifeng@oppo.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-12-05Documentation/features: Use loongarch instead of loongTiezhu Yang1-1/+1
The official arch name is LoongArch [1], we should use small letter loongarch instead of loong in Documentation/features, just use the features-refresh.sh to refresh all the related files. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/loongarch/index.html Fixes: 5860800e8696 ("Documentation/features: Update the arch support status files") Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1670156327-9631-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-06-09Documentation/features: Update the arch support status filesZheng Zengkai1-0/+1
The arch support status files don't match reality as of v5.19-rc1, use the features-refresh.sh to refresh all the arch-support.txt files in place. The main effect is to add entries for the new loong architecture. Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609025656.143460-1-zhengzengkai@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-04Merge branch 'remove-h8300' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc into ↵Arnd Bergmann1-1/+0
asm-generic * 'remove-h8300' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc: remove the h8300 architecture This is clearly the least actively maintained architecture we have at the moment, and probably the least useful. It is now the only one that does not support MMUs at all, and most of the boards only support 4MB of RAM, out of which the defconfig kernel needs more than half just for .text/.data. Guenter Roeck did the original patch to remove the architecture in 2013 after it had already been obsolete for a while, and Yoshinori Sato brought it back in a much more modern form in 2015. Looking at the git history since the reinstantiation, it's clear that almost all commits in the tree are build fixes or cross-architecture cleanups: $ git log --no-merges --format=%an v4.5.. arch/h8300/ | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 12 25 Masahiro Yamada 18 Christoph Hellwig 14 Mike Rapoport 9 Arnd Bergmann 8 Mark Rutland 7 Peter Zijlstra 6 Kees Cook 6 Ingo Molnar 6 Al Viro 5 Randy Dunlap 4 Yury Norov Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2022-03-07nds32: Remove the architectureAlan Kao1-1/+0
The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes employees. As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V, and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline support any more. While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/ Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/ Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com> [arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2022-02-23remove the h8300 architectureChristoph Hellwig1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2021-03-15Documentation/features: mark BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH doesn't apply to ARM64Barry Song1-1/+1
BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH is used on x86 to do batched tlb shootdown by sending one IPI to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages rather than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry. On arm64, tlb shootdown is done by hardware. Flush instructions are innershareable. The local flushes are limited to the boot (1 per CPU) and when a task is getting a new ASID. So marking this feature as "TODO" is not proper. ".." isn't good as well. So this patch adds a "N/A" for this kind of features which are not needed on some architectures. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223003230.11976-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-25Documentation: features: remove c6x referencesArnd Bergmann1-1/+0
The references to arch/c6x are obsolete now that the architecture is gone. Remove them. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210225142841.3385428-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-01arch: remove unicore32 portMike Rapoport1-1/+0
The unicore32 port do not seem maintained for a long time now, there is no upstream toolchain that can create unicore32 binaries and all the links to prebuilt toolchains for unicore32 are dead. Even compilers that were available are not supported by the kernel anymore. Guenter Roeck says: I have stopped building unicore32 images since v4.19 since there is no available compiler that is still supported by the kernel. I am surprised that support for it has not been removed from the kernel. Remove unicore32 port. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
2019-01-07Documentation/features: Add csky kernel featuresGuo Ren1-0/+1
core/ cBPF-JIT : TODO | core/ eBPF-JIT : TODO | core/ generic-idle-thread : ok | core/ jump-labels : TODO | core/ tracehook : ok | debug/ KASAN : TODO | debug/ gcov-profile-all : TODO | debug/ kgdb : TODO | debug/ kprobes-on-ftrace : TODO | debug/ kprobes : TODO | debug/ kretprobes : TODO | debug/ optprobes : TODO | debug/ stackprotector : TODO | debug/ uprobes : TODO | debug/ user-ret-profiler : TODO | io/ dma-contiguous : ok | locking/ cmpxchg-local : TODO | locking/ lockdep : TODO | locking/ queued-rwlocks : ok | locking/ queued-spinlocks : TODO | locking/ rwsem-optimized : TODO | perf/ kprobes-event : TODO | perf/ perf-regs : TODO | perf/ perf-stackdump : TODO | sched/ membarrier-sync-core : TODO | sched/ numa-balancing : .. | seccomp/ seccomp-filter : TODO | time/ arch-tick-broadcast : TODO | time/ clockevents : ok | time/ context-tracking : TODO | time/ irq-time-acct : TODO | time/ modern-timekeeping : ok | time/ virt-cpuacct : TODO | vm/ ELF-ASLR : TODO | vm/ PG_uncached : TODO | vm/ THP : .. | vm/ batch-unmap-tlb-flush: TODO | vm/ huge-vmap : TODO | vm/ ioremap_prot : TODO | vm/ numa-memblock : .. | vm/ pte_special : TODO | Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-05-08Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files in placeAndrea Parri1-0/+2
Now that the script 'features-refresh.sh' is available, uses this script to refresh all the arch-support.txt files in place. Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-26Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architecturesArnd Bergmann1-6/+0
A number of architecture ports are obsolete and getting dropped, so we no longer want to track the respective features. We already removed the lines for metag and mn10300, this does the same edits for all the others. For the remaining 21 architectures, this shows how many are known to implement each given feature: 19 time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt 19 time/clockevents/arch-support.txt 15 core/tracehook/arch-support.txt 14 core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt 13 locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt 12 io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt 11 debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt 10 time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt 9 debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt 9 debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt 8 vm/THP/arch-support.txt 8 vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt 8 vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt 8 io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt 7 perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt 7 locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt 7 debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt 7 core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt 7 core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt 6 vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt 6 time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt 6 seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt 6 debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt 5 time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt 5 io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt 5 debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt 4 vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt 4 time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt 4 perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt 4 perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt 3 debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt 2 vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt 2 vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt 2 sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt 2 sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt 2 locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt 2 debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt 2 debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt 1 vm/TLB/arch-support.txt 1 locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt 1 locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt 1 debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt 0 lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt Note that the list does not include riscv or nds32 yet, these still need to be added. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-10mn10300: Remove the architectureDavid Howells1-1/+0
Remove the MN10300 arch as the hardware is defunct. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-02-22docs: Remove remaining references to metagJames Hogan1-1/+0
Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
2017-05-01docs: remove all references to AVR32 architectureHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt1-1/+0
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel, hence remove all references to it from Documentation. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
2015-09-05Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status ↵Mel Gorman1-0/+40
for batched TLB flush after unmap Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>