parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4)

This is the first patch in a series of 4, with which the page cache flushing of
parisc will gets fixed and enhanced. This even fixes the nasty "minifail" bug
(http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases?highlight=%28minifail%29) which
prevented parisc to stay an official debian port.  Basically the flush in
copy_user_page together with the TLB patch from commit
7139bc1579901b53db7e898789e916ee2fb52d78 is what fixes the minifail bug.

This patch still uses the TMPALIAS approach.  The new copy_user_page
implementation calls flush_dcache_page_asm to flush the user dcache page
(crucial for minifail fix) via a kernel TMPALIAS mapping.  After that, it just
copies the page using the kernel mapping.  It does a final flush if needed.
Generally it is hard to avoid doing some cache flushes using the kernel mapping
(e.g., copy_to_user_page and copy_from_user_page).

This patch depends on a subsequent change to pacache.S implementing
clear_page_asm and copy_page_asm.  These are optimized routines to clear and
copy a page.  The calls in clear_user_page and copy_user_page could be replaced
by calls to memset and memcpy, respectively.  I tested prefetch optimizations
in clear_page_asm and copy_page_asm but didn't see any significant performance
improvement on rp3440.  I'm not sure if these are routines are significantly
faster than memset and/or memcpy, but they are there for further performance
evaluation.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h
index 4e0e7db..b7adb2a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -21,15 +21,27 @@
 #include <asm/types.h>
 #include <asm/cache.h>
 
-#define clear_page(page)       memset((void *)(page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
-#define copy_page(to,from)      copy_user_page_asm((void *)(to), (void *)(from))
+#define clear_page(page)       clear_page_asm((void *)(page))
+#define copy_page(to, from)    copy_page_asm((void *)(to), (void *)(from))
 
 struct page;
 
-void copy_user_page_asm(void *to, void *from);
+void clear_page_asm(void *page);
+void copy_page_asm(void *to, void *from);
+void clear_user_page(void *vto, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *pg);
 void copy_user_page(void *vto, void *vfrom, unsigned long vaddr,
                           struct page *pg);
-void clear_user_page(void *page, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *pg);
+
+/* #define CONFIG_PARISC_TMPALIAS */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARISC_TMPALIAS
+void clear_user_highpage(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr);
+#define clear_user_highpage clear_user_highpage
+struct vm_area_struct;
+void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
+       unsigned long vaddr, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE
+#endif
 
 /*
  * These are used to make use of C type-checking..

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
index b89a85a..d9cbb4b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
@@ -329,17 +329,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_data_cache_local);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_icache_range_asm);
 
-void clear_user_page_asm(void *page, unsigned long vaddr)
-{
-       unsigned long flags;
-       /* This function is implemented in assembly in pacache.S */
-       extern void __clear_user_page_asm(void *page, unsigned long vaddr);
-
-       purge_tlb_start(flags);
-       __clear_user_page_asm(page, vaddr);
-       purge_tlb_end(flags);
-}
-
 #define FLUSH_THRESHOLD 0x80000 /* 0.5MB */
 int parisc_cache_flush_threshold __read_mostly = FLUSH_THRESHOLD;
 
@@ -373,20 +362,9 @@ void __init parisc_setup_cache_timing(void)
        printk(KERN_INFO "Setting cache flush threshold to %x (%d CPUs online)\n", parisc_cache_flush_threshold, num_online_cpus());
 }
 
-extern void purge_kernel_dcache_page(unsigned long);
-extern void clear_user_page_asm(void *page, unsigned long vaddr);
-
-void clear_user_page(void *page, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *pg)
-{
-       unsigned long flags;
-
-       purge_kernel_dcache_page((unsigned long)page);
-       purge_tlb_start(flags);
-       pdtlb_kernel(page);
-       purge_tlb_end(flags);
-       clear_user_page_asm(page, vaddr);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_page);
+extern void purge_kernel_dcache_page_asm(unsigned long);
+extern void clear_user_page_asm(void *, unsigned long);
+extern void copy_user_page_asm(void *, void *, unsigned long);
 
 void flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr(void *addr)
 {
@@ -399,11 +377,26 @@ void flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr(void *addr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr);
 
+void clear_user_page(void *vto, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *page)
+{
+       clear_page_asm(vto);
+       if (!parisc_requires_coherency())
+               flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm(vto);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_page);
+
 void copy_user_page(void *vto, void *vfrom, unsigned long vaddr,
-                   struct page *pg)
+       struct page *pg)
 {
-       /* no coherency needed (all in kmap/kunmap) */
-       copy_user_page_asm(vto, vfrom);
+       /* Copy using kernel mapping.  No coherency is needed
+          (all in kmap/kunmap) on machines that don't support
+          non-equivalent aliasing.  However, the `from' page
+          needs to be flushed before it can be accessed through
+          the kernel mapping. */
+       preempt_disable();
+       flush_dcache_page_asm(__pa(vfrom), vaddr);
+       preempt_enable();
+       copy_page_asm(vto, vfrom);
        if (!parisc_requires_coherency())
                flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm(vto);
 }

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
index ceec85d..6795dc6 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
@@ -157,5 +157,6 @@ extern void _mcount(void);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_mcount);
 #endif
 
-/* from pacache.S -- needed for copy_page */
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_user_page_asm);
+/* from pacache.S -- needed for clear/copy_page */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_asm);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_page_asm);