On Tue, 19 May 2020 18:03:29 +0800 Bibo Mao <maob...@loongson.cn> wrote:
> Here add pte_sw_mkyoung function to make page readable on MIPS
> platform during page fault handling. This patch improves page
> fault latency about 10% on my MIPS machine with lmbench
> lat_pagefault case.
>
> It is noop function on other arches, there is no negative
> influence on those architectures.
>
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkyoung(pte_t pte)
> return pte;
> }
>
> +#define pte_sw_mkyoung pte_mkyoung
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_HUGE_TLB_SUPPORT
> static inline int pte_huge(pte_t pte) { return pte_val(pte) &
> _PAGE_HUGE; }
>
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> @@ -227,6 +227,21 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct
> *mm, unsigned long addres
> }
> #endif
>
> +/*
> + * On some architectures hardware does not set page access bit when accessing
> + * memory page, it is responsibilty of software setting this bit. It brings
> + * out extra page fault penalty to track page access bit. For optimization
> page
> + * access bit can be set during all page fault flow on these arches.
> + * To be differentiate with macro pte_mkyoung, this macro is used on
> platforms
> + * where software maintains page access bit.
> + */
> +#ifndef pte_sw_mkyoung
> +static inline pte_t pte_sw_mkyoung(pte_t pte)
> +{
> + return pte;
> +}
> +#endif
Yup, that's neat enough. Thanks for making this change. It looks like
all architectures include asm-generic/pgtable.h so that's fine.
It's conventional to add a
#define pte_sw_mkyoung pte_sw_mkyoung
immediately above the #endif there, so we can't try to implement
pte_sw_mkyoung() twice if this header gets included twice. But the
header has #ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_PGTABLE_H around the whole thing so
that should be OK.
