Once the lazy preemption is supported, it would be desirable to change
the preemption models at runtime. So add support for dynamic preemption
using DYNAMIC_KEY.
::Tested lightly on Power10 LPAR
Performance numbers indicate that, preempt=none(no dynamic) and
preempt=none(dynamic) are close.
cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/preempt
(none) voluntary full lazy
perf stat -e probe:__cond_resched -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
1,253 probe:__cond_resched
echo full > /sys/kernel/debug/sched/preempt
cat /sys/kernel/debug/sched/preempt
none voluntary (full) lazy
perf stat -e probe:__cond_resched -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
0 probe:__cond_resched
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250210184334.567383-2-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Large user copy_to/from (more than 16 bytes) uses vmx instructions to
speed things up. Once the copy is done, it makes sense to try schedule
as soon as possible for preemptible kernels. So do this for
preempt=full/lazy and rt kernel.
Not checking for lazy bit here, since it could lead to unnecessary
context switches.
Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241116192306.88217-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
schedule must not be explicitly called while KUAP is unlocked, because
the AMR register will not be saved across the context switch on
64s (preemption is allowed because that is driven by interrupts which do
save the AMR).
exit_vmx_usercopy() runs inside an unlocked user access region, and it
calls preempt_enable() which will call schedule() if need_resched() was
set while non-preemptible. This can cause tasks to run unprotected when
the should not, and can cause the user copy to be improperly blocked
when scheduling back to it.
Fix this by avoiding the explicit resched for preempt kernels by
generating an interrupt to reschedule the context if need_resched() got
set.
Reported-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221013151647.1857994-3-npiggin@gmail.com
We originally added asm-prototypes.h in commit 42f5b4cacd ("powerpc:
Introduce asm-prototypes.h"). It's purpose was for prototypes of C
functions that are only called from asm, in order to fix sparse
warnings about missing prototypes.
A few months later Nick added a different use case in
commit 4efca4ed05 ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm")
for C prototypes for exported asm functions. This is basically the
inverse of our original usage.
Since then we've added various prototypes to asm-prototypes.h for both
reasons, meaning we now need to unstitch it all.
Dispatch prototypes of C functions into relevant headers and keep
only the prototypes for functions defined in assembly.
For the time being, leave prom_init() there because moving it
into asm/prom.h or asm/setup.h conflicts with
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/bios/shadowrom.o
This will be fixed later by untaggling asm/pci.h and asm/prom.h
or by renaming the function in shadowrom.c
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/62d46904eca74042097acf4cb12c175e3067f3d1.1646413435.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch add VMX primitives to do memcmp() in case the compare size
is equal or greater than 4K bytes. KSM feature can benefit from this.
Test result with following test program(replace the "^>" with ""):
------
># cat tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/memcmp.c
>#include <malloc.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <string.h>
>#include <time.h>
>#include "utils.h"
>#define SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 900)
>#define ITERATIONS 40
int test_memcmp(const void *s1, const void *s2, size_t n);
static int testcase(void)
{
char *s1;
char *s2;
unsigned long i;
s1 = memalign(128, SIZE);
if (!s1) {
perror("memalign");
exit(1);
}
s2 = memalign(128, SIZE);
if (!s2) {
perror("memalign");
exit(1);
}
for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
s1[i] = i & 0xff;
s2[i] = i & 0xff;
}
for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) {
int ret = test_memcmp(s1, s2, SIZE);
if (ret) {
printf("return %d at[%ld]! should have returned zero\n", ret, i);
abort();
}
}
return 0;
}
int main(void)
{
return test_harness(testcase, "memcmp");
}
------
Without this patch (but with the first patch "powerpc/64: Align bytes
before fall back to .Lshort in powerpc64 memcmp()." in the series):
4.726728762 seconds time elapsed ( +- 3.54%)
With VMX patch:
4.234335473 seconds time elapsed ( +- 2.63%)
There is ~+10% improvement.
Testing with unaligned and different offset version (make s1 and s2 shift
random offset within 16 bytes) can archieve higher improvement than 10%..
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Sparse picked up a number of functions that are implemented in C and
then only referred to in asm code.
This introduces asm-prototypes.h, which provides a place for
prototypes of these functions.
This silences some sparse warnings.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
[mpe: Add include guards, clean up copyright & GPL text]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The enable_kernel_*() functions leave the relevant MSR bits enabled
until we exit the kernel sometime later. Create disable versions
that wrap the kernel use of FP, Altivec VSX or SPE.
While we don't want to disable it normally for performance reasons
(MSR writes are slow), it will be used for a debug boot option that
does this and catches bad uses in other areas of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Implement a POWER7 optimised copy_page using VMX and enhanced
prefetch instructions. We use enhanced prefetch hints to prefetch
both the load and store side. We copy a cacheline at a time and
fall back to regular loads and stores if we are unable to use VMX
(eg we are in an interrupt).
The following microbenchmark was used to assess the impact of
the patch:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/page_fault_file.c
We test MAP_PRIVATE page faults across a 1GB file, 100 times:
# time ./page_fault_file -p -l 1G -i 100
Before: 22.25s
After: 18.89s
17% faster
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subsequent patches will add more VMX library functions and it makes
sense to keep all the c-code helper functions in the one file.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
