Avoid some stalls, which is good for about 2 cycles when invoking a
light-weight handler. When invoking a heavy-weight handler, this
helps by about 7 cycles, with most of the improvement coming from the
improved branch-prediction achieved by splitting the BBB bundle into
two MIB bundles.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch reorganizes break_fault() to optimistically assume that a
system-call is being performed from user-space (which is almost always
the case). If it turns out that (a) we're not being called due to a
system call or (b) we're being called from within the kernel, we fixup
the no-longer-valid assumptions in non_syscall() and .break_fixup(),
respectively.
With this approach, there are 3 major phases:
- Phase 1: Read various control & application registers, in
particular the current task pointer from AR.K6.
- Phase 2: Do all memory loads (load system-call entry,
load current_thread_info()->flags, prefetch
kernel register-backing store) and switch
to kernel register-stack.
- Phase 3: Call ia64_syscall_setup() and invoke
syscall-handler.
Good for 26-30 cycles of improvement on break-based syscall-path.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reschedule code to read ar.bsp as early as possible. To enable this,
don't bother clearing some of the registers when we're returning to
kernel stacks. Also, instead of trying to support the pNonSys case
(which makes no sense), do a bugcheck instead (with break 0). Finally,
remove a clear of r14 which is a left-over from the previous patch.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Using stf8 seemed like a clever idea at the time, but stf8 forces
the cache-line to be invalidated in the L1D (if it happens to be
there already). This patch eliminates a guaranteed L1D cache-miss
and, by itself, is good for a 1-2 cycle improvement for heavy-weight
syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Why is this a good idea? Clearing b7 to 0 is guaranteed to do us no
good and writing it with __kernel_syscall_via_epc() yields a 6 cycle
improvement _if_ the application performs another EPC-based system-
call without overwriting b7, which is not all that uncommon. Well
worth the minimal cost of 1 bundle of code.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Decreases syscall overhead by approximately 6 cycles.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This by itself is good for a 1-2 cycle speed up. Effect is bigger
when combined with the later patches.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
->pretcode in struct rt_sigframe is a userland pointer (and already
treated as such by code using that field).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
SVC_MODE reflects the MODE_SVC definition in asm/ptrace.h. Use
the asm/ptrace.h definition instead, and remove SVC_MODE.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Jeff Lackey
This patch updates arch/arm/mach-pxa/sleep.S to support
the PXA270 CPU. It works around Errata 39 & 50 from the
Intel(R) PXA27x Processor Family Specification Update.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Lackey
Signed-off-by: Russell King
[IA64] fix ia64 Kconfig to allow CONFIG_PM on sn2
This probably should have been fixed when I fixed up the generic build for
discontig+numa machines, but oh well.
CONFIG_PM is allowable for generic builds but not for sn2 builds, which
doesn't make much sense, and in fact breaks the build if recent ACPI bits are
added to the tree. It looks like the only arch that needs to prevent
CONFIG_PM stuff is the ski simulator (though those options could probably use
some cleanup as well), so remove the big conditional and replace it with a
simple test for IA64_HP_SIM instead.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
vector sharing patch had a typo ... mismatched spin_lock() with
a spin_unlock_irq(). Fix from Kenji Kaneshige.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Rohit and Suresh changed their mind about the order to print things
in /proc/cpuinfo, but didn't include the change in the version of
the patch they sent to me.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Current ia64 linux cannot handle greater than 184 interrupt sources
because of the lack of vectors. The following patch enables ia64 linux
to handle greater than 184 interrupt sources by allowing the same
vector number to be shared by multiple IOSAPIC's RTEs. The design of
this patch is besed on "Intel(R) Itanium(R) Processor Family Interrupt
Architecture Guide".
Even if you don't have a large I/O system, you can see the behavior of
vector sharing by changing IOSAPIC_LAST_DEVICE_VECTOR to fewer value.
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Version 3 - rediffed to apply on top of Ashok's hotplug cpu
patch. /proc/cpuinfo output in step with x86.
This is an updated MC/MT identification patch based on the
previous discussions on list.
Add the Multi-core and Multi-threading detection for IPF.
- Add new core and threading related fields in /proc/cpuinfo.
Physical id
Core id
Thread id
Siblings
- setup the cpu_core_map and cpu_sibling_map appropriately
- Handles Hot plug CPU
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
memcpy_mck.S::__copy_user breaks in the prefetch code under these conditions :-
* src is unaligned and
* dst is near the end of a page and
* the page after dst is unmapped.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Thanks to Mark for tracking down this one. Users of __copy_from_user_inatomic()
will be sad if we don't handle lfetch faults for the "no_context" case.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch against ia64-test-2.6.12 is needed for forthcoming
Altix chipsets. It renames geoid_any_t to geoid_common_t and
splits the 8bit 'slab' field into two 4bit fields for 'slab'
and 'slot'. Similar changes in the Altix SAL will retain backward
compatibility for old kernels.
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Sadly, I goofed in this syscall-tuning patch:
ChangeSet 1.1966.1.40 2005/01/22 13:31:05 davidm@hpl.hp.com
[IA64] Improve ia64_leave_syscall() for McKinley-type cores.
Optimize ia64_leave_syscall() a bit better for McKinley-type cores.
The patch looks big, but that's mostly due to renaming r16/r17 to r2/r3.
Good for a 13 cycle improvement.
The problem is that the size of the physical stacked registers was
loaded into the wrong register (r3 instead of r17). Since r17 by
coincidence always had the value 1, this had the effect of turning
rse_clear_invalid into a no-op. That poses the risk of leaking kernel
state back to user-land and is hence not acceptable.
The fix below is simple, but unfortunately it costs us about 28 cycles
in syscall overhead. ;-(
Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about that since those
registers have to be cleared one way or another.
--david
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
patch 2:
Shub2 BTE recovery code will be implemented in SAL.
Define the SAL interface.
Modify bte_error to call SAL for shub2.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch to disable SGI TIOCA GART TLB prefetching due to hw bug.
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This fixes a couple of bugs in the zx1/sx1000 sba_iommu. These are
all pretty low likelihood of hitting. The first problem is a simple off
by one, deep in the sba_alloc_range() error path. Surrounding that was
a lock ordering problem that could have potentially deadlocked with the
order the locks are grabbed in sba_unmap_single(). I moved the resource
locking into sba_search_bitmap() to prevent this. Finally, there's a
potential race between unmapping pdir entries and marking incoming DMA
pages clean. If you see any oddities, please let me know, but I've
tested it pretty thoroughly here. Tony, please apply. Thanks,
BTW, many of the options in this driver not on by default are becoming
more and more broken. I'll be working on some patches to clean them
out, but I wanted to get this bug fix out first.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch introduces using the quicklists for pgd, pmd, and pte levels
by combining the alloc and free functions into a common set of routines.
This greatly simplifies the reading of this header file.
This patch is simple but necessary for large numa configurations.
It simply ensures that only pages from the local node are added to a
cpus quicklist. This prevents the trapping of pages on a remote nodes
quicklist by starting a process, touching a large number of pages to
fill pmd and pte entries, migrating to another node, and then unmapping
or exiting. With those conditions, the pages get trapped and if the
machine has more than 100 nodes of the same size, the calculation of
the pgtable high water mark will be larger than any single node so page
table cache flushing will never occur.
I ran lmbench lat_proc fork and lat_proc exec on a zx1 with and without
this patch and did not notice any change.
On an sn2 machine, there was a slight improvement which is possibly
due to pages from other nodes trapped on the test node before starting
the run. I did not investigate further.
This patch shrinks the quicklist based upon free memory on the node
instead of the high/low water marks. I have written it to enable
preemption periodically and recalculate the amount to shrink every time
we have freed enough pages that the quicklist size should have grown.
I rescan the nodes zones each pass because other processess may be
draining node memory at the same time as we are adding.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch adds the necessary "hook" to allow SGI/SN
machines to perform a system power off upon a
'init 0', 'halt -p', 'poweroff' or 'shutdown -h'.
The "hook" is to set the pm_power_off callback
to ia64_sn_power_down(). pm_power_off is checked
in machine_power_off()/do_poweroff() and, if set, is executed.
ia64_sn_power_down() is a function already present (but not
used currently) in the sn kernel.
ia64_sn_power_down() makes a SAL call to execute the
power off.
Signed-off-by: Aaron J Young <ayoung@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch is to provide CX port infrastructure for SGI TIO-based
h/w. Also a 'core services' driver for SGI FPGA-based h/w.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Losure <blosure@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
- make pfm_sysctl a global such that it is possible
to enable/disable debug printk in sampling formats
using PFM_DEBUG.
- remove unused pfm_debug_var variable
- fix a bug in pfm_handle_work where an BUG_ON() could
be triggered. There is a path where pfm_handle_work()
can be called with interrupts enabled, i.e., when
TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set. The fix correct the masking
and unmasking of interrupts in pfm_handle_work() such
that we restore the interrupt mask as it was upon entry.
signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
please accept this patch to the Altix SN platform topology export
interface to support new chipsets and to export PCI topology.
This follows on top of Jack Steiner's patch dated March 1st
("New chipset support for SN platform").
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Recently I noticed that clearing ar.ssd/ar.csd right before srlz.d is
causing significant stalling in the syscall path. The patch below
fixes that by moving the register-writes after srlz.d. On a Madison,
this drops break-based getpid() from 241 to 226 cycles (-15 cycles).
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Detect user space by the unwind frame with predicate PRED_USER_STACK
set, instead of a user space IP. Tighten up the last ditch check for
running off the top of the kernel stack.
Based on a suggestion by David Mosberger, reworked to fit the current
tree. This survives my stress test which used to break 2.6.9 kernels.
Unlike 2.6.11, the stress test now unwinds to the correct point, so
gdb can get the user space registers.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Call cpu_relax() in busy-waiting loops of the ITC-syncing code.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Provide a driver for the altix TIOCA AGP chipset. An agpgart backend will
be provided as a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
