gdbserver inserting a breakpoint ends up calling copy_user_page() for a
code page. The generic version of which (non-aliasing config) didn't set
the PG_arch_1 bit hence update_mmu_cache() didn't sync dcache/icache for
corresponding dynamic loader code page - causing garbade to be executed.
So now aliasing versions of copy_user_highpage()/clear_page() are made
default. There is no significant overhead since all of special alias
handling code is compiled out for non-aliasing build
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The current code uses 2 bits for determining page's dcache color, thus
sorting pages into 4 bins, whereas the aliasing dcache really has 2 bins
(8k page, 64k dcache - 4 way-set-assoc).
This can cause extraneous flushes - e.g. color 0 and 2.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The VM_EXEC check in update_mmu_cache() was getting optimized away
because of a stupid error in definition of macro addr_not_cache_congruent()
The intention was to have the equivalent of following:
if (a || (1 ? b : 0))
but we ended up with following:
if (a || 1 ? b : 0)
And because precedence of '||' is more that that of '?', gcc was optimizing
away evaluation of <a>
Nasty Repercussions:
1. For non-aliasing configs it would mean some extraneous dcache flushes
for non-code pages if U/K mappings were not congruent.
2. For aliasing config, some needed dcache flush for code pages might
be missed if U/K mappings were congruent.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This manifested as grep failing psuedo-randomly:
-------------->8---------------------
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
[ARCLinux]$
[ARCLinux]$ ip address show lo | grep inet
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
-------------->8---------------------
ARC700 MMU provides fully orthogonal permission bits per page:
Ur, Uw, Ux, Kr, Kw, Kx
The user mode page permission templates used to have all Kernel mode
access bits enabled.
This caused a tricky race condition observed with uClibc buffered file
read and UNIX pipes.
1. Read access to an anon mapped page in libc .bss: write-protected
zero_page mapped: TLB Entry installed with Ur + K[rwx]
2. grep calls libc:getc() -> buffered read layer calls read(2) with the
internal read buffer in same .bss page.
The read() call is on STDIN which has been redirected to a pipe.
read(2) => sys_read() => pipe_read() => copy_to_user()
3. Since page has Kernel-write permission (despite being user-mode
write-protected), copy_to_user() suceeds w/o taking a MMU TLB-Miss
Exception (page-fault for ARC). core-MM is unaware that kernel
erroneously wrote to the reserved read-only zero-page (BUG #1)
4. Control returns to userspace which now does a write to same .bss page
Since Linux MM is not aware that page has been modified by kernel, it
simply reassigns a new writable zero-init page to mapping, loosing the
prior write by kernel - effectively zero'ing out the libc read buffer
under the hood - hence grep doesn't see right data (BUG #2)
The fix is to make all kernel-mode access permissions mirror the
user-mode ones. Note that the kernel still has full access to pages,
when accessed directly (w/o MMU) - this fix ensures that kernel-mode
access in copy_to_from() path uses the same faulting access model as for
pure user accesses to keep MM fully aware of page state.
The issue is peudo-random because it only shows up if the TLB entry
installed in #1 is present at the time of #3. If it is evicted out, due
to TLB pressure or some-such, then copy_to_user() does take a TLB Miss
Exception, with a routine write-to-anon COW processing installing a
fresh page for kernel writes and also usable as it is in userspace.
Further the issue was dormant for so long as it depends on where the
libc internal read buffer (in .bss) is mapped at runtime.
If it happens to reside in file-backed data mapping of libc (in the
page-aligned slack space trailing the file backed data), loader zero
padding the slack space, does the early cow page replacement, setting
things up at the very beginning itself.
With gcc 4.8 based builds, the libc buffer got pushed out to a real
anon mapping which triggers the issue.
Reported-by: Anton Kolesov <akolesov@synopsys.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Flush and INVALIDATE the dcache page.
This helper is only used for writeback of CODE pages to memory. So
there's no value in keeping the dcache lines around. Infact it is risky
as a writeback on natural eviction under pressure can cause un-needed
writeback with weird issues on aliasing dcache configurations.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The TB10x platform port includes a custom mechanism using to set up
default pin controller configurations using abilis,simple-default
pin configurations of nodes compatible with abilis,simple-pinctrl. This
mechanism is redundant with the Linux standard "default" pin
configuration, see commit ab78029ecc
"drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core".
This patch removes the TB10x custom mechanism in favour of the Linux
standard.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Pull second set of arc arch updates from Vineet Gupta:
"Aliasing VIPT dcache support for ARC
I'm satisified with testing, specially with fuse which has
historically given grief to VIPT arches (ARM/PARISC...)"
* tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: [TB10x] Remove GENERIC_GPIO
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 4/4
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 3/4
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 2/4
ARC: [mm] Aliasing VIPT dcache support 1/4
ARC: [mm] refactor the core (i|d)cache line ops loops
ARC: [mm] serious bug in vaddr based icache flush
Pull ARC port updates from Vineet Gupta:
"Support for two new platforms based on ARC700:
- Abilis TB10x SoC [Chritisian/Pierrick]
- Simulator only System-C Model [Mischa]
ARC specific MM improvements:
- Avoid full TLB flush (ASID increment) on munmap (even single page)
- VIPT Cache Flushing improvements
+ Delayed dcache flush for non-aliasing dcache (big performance boost)
+ icache flush aliasing agnostic (no need to kill all possible aliases)
Others:
- Avoid needless rebuild of DTB files for every kernel build
- Remove builtin cmdline as that is already provided by DeviceTree/bootargs
- Fixing unaligned access emulation corner case
- checkpatch fixes [Sachin]
- Various fixlets [Noam]
- Minor build failures/cleanups"
* tag 'arc-v3.10-rc1-part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (35 commits)
ARC: [mm] Lazy D-cache flush (non aliasing VIPT)
ARC: [mm] micro-optimize page size icache invalidate
ARC: [mm] remove the pessimistic all-alias-invalidate icache helpers
ARC: [mm] consolidate icache/dcache sync code
ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for kernel mappings
ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for user mappings
ARC: [mm] optimize needless full mm TLB flush on munmap
ARC: Add support for nSIM OSCI System C model
ARC: [TB10x] Adapt device tree to new compatible string
ARC: [TB10x] Add support for TB10x platform
ARC: [TB10x] Device tree of TB100 and TB101 Development Kits
ARC: Prepare interrupt code for external controllers
ARC: Allow embedded arc-intc to be properly placed in DT intc hierarchy
ARC: [cmdline] Don't overwrite u-boot provided bootargs
ARC: [cmdline] Remove CONFIG_CMDLINE
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig update
ARC: unaligned access emulation broken if callee-reg dest of LD/ST
ARC: unaligned access emulation error handling consolidation
ARC: Debug/crash-printing Improvements
ARC: fix typo with clock speed
...
This is the meat of the series which prevents any dcache alias creation
by always keeping the U and K mapping of a page congruent.
If a mapping already exists, and other tries to access the page, prev
one is flushed to physical page (wback+inv)
Essentially flush_dcache_page()/copy_user_highpage() create K-mapping
of a page, but try to defer flushing, unless U-mapping exist.
When page is actually mapped to userspace, update_mmu_cache() flushes
the K-mapping (in certain cases this can be optimised out)
Additonally flush_cache_mm(), flush_cache_range(), flush_cache_page()
handle the puring of stale userspace mappings on exit/munmap...
flush_anon_page() handles the existing U-mapping for anon page before
kernel reads it via the GUP path.
Note that while not complete, this is enough to boot a simple
dynamically linked Busybox based rootfs
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This preps the low level dcache flush helpers to take vaddr argument in
addition to the existing paddr to properly flush the VIPT dcache
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Nothing semantical
* simplify the alignement code by using & operation only
* rename variables clearly as paddr
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
vaddr used to index the cache was clipped from the wrong end, and thus
would potentially fail to flush the correct lines.
The problem was dorment for so long because up until the recent
optimizations it was only used for ptrace break-point only flushes.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
flush_dcache_page( ) is MM hook to ensure that a page has consistent
views between kernel and userspace. Thus it is called when
* kernel writes to a page which at some later point could get mapped to
userspace (so kernel mapping needs to be flushed-n-inv)
* kernel is about to read from a page with possible userspace mappings
(so userspace mappings needs to be made coherent with kernel ones)
However for Non aliasing VIPT dcache, any userspace mapping will always
be congruent to kernel mapping. Thus d-cache need need not be flushed at
all (or delayed indefinitely).
The only reason it does need to be flushed is when mapping code pages.
Since icache doesn't snoop dcache, those dirty dcache lines need to be
written back to memory and icache line invalidated so that icache lines
fetch will get the right data.
Decent gains on LMBench fork/exec/sh and File I/O micro-benchmarks.
(1) FPGA @ 80 MHZ
Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz null null open slct sig sig fork exec sh
call I/O stat clos TCP inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
3.9-rc6-a Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.79 8.72 66.7 116. 239. 8.39 30.4 4798 14.K 34.K
3.9-rc6-b Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.79 8.62 65.4 111. 239. 8.35 29.0 3995 12.K 30.K
3.9-rc7-c Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.79 9.00 66.1 106. 239. 8.61 30.4 2858 10.K 24.K
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^
File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page 100fd
Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault selct
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ------- -----
3.9-rc6-a Linux 3.9.0-r 317.8 204.2 1122.3 375.1 3522.0 4.288 20.7 126.8
3.9-rc6-b Linux 3.9.0-r 298.7 223.0 1141.6 367.8 3531.0 4.866 20.9 126.4
3.9-rc7-c Linux 3.9.0-r 278.4 179.2 862.1 339.3 3705.0 3.223 20.3 126.6
^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^
(2) Customer Silicon @ 500 MHz (166 MHz mem)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz null null open slct sig sig fork exec sh
call I/O stat clos TCP inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
abilis-ba Linux 3.9.0-r 497 0.71 1.38 4.58 12.0 35.5 1.40 3.89 2070 5525 13.K
abilis-ca Linux 3.9.0-r 497 0.71 1.40 4.61 11.8 35.6 1.37 3.92 1411 4317 10.K
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
start address is already page aligned and size is const PAGE_SIZE,
thus fixups for alignment not needed in generated code.
bloat-o-meter vmlinux-mm5 vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-32 (-32)
function old new delta
__inv_icache_page 82 50 -32
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Now that we have same helper used for all icache invalidates (i.e.
vaddr+paddr based exact line invalidate), consolidate the open coded
calls into one place.
Also rename flush_icache_range_vaddr => __sync_icache_dcache
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This change continues the theme from prev commit - this time icache
handling for kernel's own code modification (vmalloc: loadable modules,
breakpoints for kprobes/kgdb...)
flush_icache_range() calls the CDU icache helper with vaddr to enable
exact line invalidate.
For a true kernel-virtual mapping, the vaddr is actually virtual hence
valid as index into cache. For kprobes breakpoint however, the vaddr arg
is actually paddr - since that's how normal kernel is mapped in ARC
memory map. This implies that CDU will use the same addr for
indexing as for tag match - which is fine since kernel code would only
have that "implicit" mapping and none other.
This should speed up module loading significantly - specially on default
ARC700 icache configurations (32k) which alias.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
ARC icache doesn't snoop dcache thus executable pages need to be made
coherent before mapping into userspace in flush_icache_page().
However ARC700 CDU (hardware cache flush module) requires both vaddr
(index in cache) as well as paddr (tag match) to correctly identify a
line in the VIPT cache. A typical ARC700 SoC has aliasing icache, thus
the paddr only based flush_icache_page() API couldn't be implemented
efficiently. It had to loop thru all possible alias indexes and perform
the invalidate operation (ofcourse the cache op would only succeed at
the index(es) where tag matches - typically only 1, but the cost of
visiting all the cache-bins needs to paid nevertheless).
Turns out however that the vaddr (along with paddr) is available in
update_mmu_cache() hence better suits ARC icache flush semantics.
With both vaddr+paddr, exactly one flush operation per line is done.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
munmap ends up calling tlb_flush() which for ARC was flushing the entire
TLB unconditionally (by moving the MMU to a new ASID)
do_munmap
unmap_region
unmap_vmas
unmap_single_vma
unmap_page_range
tlb_start_vma
zap_pud_range
tlb_end_vma()
tlb_finish_mmu
tlb_flush() ---> unconditional flush_tlb_mm()
So even a single page munmap, a frequent operation when uClibc dynamic
linker (ldso) is loading the dependent shared libraries, would move the
the ASID multiple times - needlessly invalidating the pre-faulted TLB
entries (and increasing the rate of ASID wraparound + full TLB flush).
This is now optimised to only be called if tlb->full_mm (which means
for exit/execve) cases only. And for those cases, flush_tlb_mm() is
already optimised to be a no-op for mm->mm_users == 0.
So essentially there are no mmore full mm flushes - except for fork which
anyhow needs it for properly COW'ing parent address space.
munmap now needs to do TLB range flush, which is implemented with
tlb_end_vma()
Results
-------
1. ASID now consistenly moves by 4 during a simple ls (as opposed to 5 or
7 before).
2. LMBench microbenchmark also shows improvements
Basic system parameters
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Description Mhz tlb cache mem scal
pages line par load
bytes
--------- ------------- ----------------------- ---- ----- ----- ------ ----
3.9-rc5-0 Linux 3.9.0-r 3.9-rc5-0404-gcc-4.4-ba 80 8 64 1.1000 1
3.9-rc5-0 Linux 3.9.0-r 3.9-rc5-0405-avoid-full 80 8 64 1.1200 1
Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz null null open slct sig sig fork exec sh
call I/O stat clos TCP inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
3.9-rc5-0 Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.81 8.69 68.6 118. 239. 8.53 31.6 4839 13.K 34.K
3.9-rc5-0 Linux 3.9.0-r 80 4.46 8.36 53.8 91.3 223. 8.12 24.2 4725 13.K 33.K
File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page 100fd
Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault selct
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ------- -----
3.9-rc5-0 Linux 3.9.0-r 314.7 223.2 1054.9 390.2 3615.0 1.590 20.1 126.6
3.9-rc5-0 Linux 3.9.0-r 265.8 183.8 1014.2 314.1 3193.0 6.910 18.8 110.4
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This adds support for an ARC Virtual Platform. This platform is based on the
System C standard promoted by the OSCI (Open System C Initiative) and uses
nSIM to simulate the ARC CPU core itself.
Users can build a virtual SoC by combining System C models of peripherals
and CPU cores.
Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker <mjonker@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
The original device tree was written using a slightly different
implementation of the fixed-factor-clock device tree binding. The
compatible string must be modified in order to be compatible with the
new implementation.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Infrastructure required to make the Linux kernel compile and boot on the
Abilis Systems TB10x series of SOCs based on ARC700 CPUs:
- Kmake related files (Kconfig, Makefile, tb10x_defconfig)
- TB10x platform initialisation
Signed-off-by: Christian Ruppert <christian.ruppert@abilis.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet@abilis.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
