Helge Deller b00a56e647 parisc: Optimize per-pagetable spinlocks
[ Upstream commit b7795074a0 ]

On parisc a spinlock is stored in the next page behind the pgd which
protects against parallel accesses to the pgd. That's why one additional
page (PGD_ALLOC_ORDER) is allocated for the pgd.

Matthew Wilcox suggested that we instead should use a pointer in the
struct page table for this spinlock and noted, that the comments for the
PGD_ORDER and PMD_ORDER defines were wrong.

Both suggestions are addressed with this patch. Instead of having an own
spinlock to protect the pgd, we now switch to use the existing
page_table_lock.  Additionally, beside loading the pgd into cr25 in
switch_mm_irqs_off(), the physical address of this lock is loaded into
cr28 (tr4), so that we can avoid implementing a complicated lookup in
assembly for this lock in the TLB fault handlers.

The existing Hybrid L2/L3 page table scheme (where the pmd is adjacent
to the pgd) has been dropped with this patch.

Remove the locking in set_pte() and the huge-page pte functions too.
They trigger a spinlock recursion on 32bit machines and seem unnecessary.

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Fixes: b37d1c1898 ("parisc: Use per-pagetable spinlock")
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Stable-dep-of: 38860b2c8b ("parisc: Flush kernel data mapping in set_pte_at() when installing pte for user page")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-09-23 14:16:56 +02:00
2022-09-20 12:38:33 +02:00

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