Re: [PATCH v3 04/18] xen/arm: flushtlb: Reduce scope of barrier for the TLB range flush

2022-12-13 Thread Michal Orzel
Hi Julien,

On 12/12/2022 10:55, Julien Grall wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Julien Grall 
> 
> At the moment, flush_xen_tlb_range_va{,_local}() are using system
> wide memory barrier. This is quite expensive and unnecessary.
> 
> For the local version, a non-shareable barrier is sufficient.
> For the SMP version, a inner-shareable barrier is sufficient.
s/a/an/

> 
> Furthermore, the initial barrier only need to a store barrier.
s/need/needs/

> 
> For the full explanation of the sequence see asm/arm{32,64}/flushtlb.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall 
Reviewed-by: Michal Orzel 

~Michal




[PATCH v3 04/18] xen/arm: flushtlb: Reduce scope of barrier for the TLB range flush

2022-12-12 Thread Julien Grall
From: Julien Grall 

At the moment, flush_xen_tlb_range_va{,_local}() are using system
wide memory barrier. This is quite expensive and unnecessary.

For the local version, a non-shareable barrier is sufficient.
For the SMP version, a inner-shareable barrier is sufficient.

Furthermore, the initial barrier only need to a store barrier.

For the full explanation of the sequence see asm/arm{32,64}/flushtlb.h.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall 

---
Changes in v3:
- Patch added
---
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h | 10 ++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h 
b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h
index 125a141975e0..e45fb6d97b02 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h
@@ -37,13 +37,14 @@ static inline void flush_xen_tlb_range_va_local(vaddr_t va,
 {
 vaddr_t end = va + size;
 
-dsb(sy); /* Ensure preceding are visible */
+/* See asm/arm{32,64}/flushtlb.h for the explanation of the sequence. */
+dsb(nshst); /* Ensure prior page-tables updates have completed */
 while ( va < end )
 {
 __flush_xen_tlb_one_local(va);
 va += PAGE_SIZE;
 }
-dsb(sy); /* Ensure completion of the TLB flush */
+dsb(nsh); /* Ensure the TLB invalidation has completed */
 isb();
 }
 
@@ -56,13 +57,14 @@ static inline void flush_xen_tlb_range_va(vaddr_t va,
 {
 vaddr_t end = va + size;
 
-dsb(sy); /* Ensure preceding are visible */
+/* See asm/arm{32,64}/flushtlb.h for the explanation of the sequence. */
+dsb(ishst); /* Ensure prior page-tables updates have completed */
 while ( va < end )
 {
 __flush_xen_tlb_one(va);
 va += PAGE_SIZE;
 }
-dsb(sy); /* Ensure completion of the TLB flush */
+dsb(ish); /* Ensure the TLB invalidation has completed */
 isb();
 }
 
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