Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] riscv: Use use_asid_allocator flush TLB

From: Guo Ren
Date: Sat May 29 2021 - 20:51:37 EST


On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 7:42 AM <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 May 2021 00:09:03 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 05:49:21AM +0000, guoren@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Use static_branch_unlikely(&use_asid_allocator) to keep the origin
> >> tlb flush style, so it's no effect on the existing machine. Here
> >> are the optimized functions:
> >> - flush_tlb_mm
> >> - flush_tlb_page
> >> - flush_tlb_range
> >>
> >> All above are based on the below new implement functions:
> >> - __sbi_tlb_flush_range_asid
> >> - local_flush_tlb_range_asid
> >>
> >> These functions are based on ASID instead of previous non-ASID
> >> tlb_flush implementation which invalidates more useful tlb
> >> entries.
> >
> > I still think the commit message is incomplete and rather misleading.
> > Here is what I'd come up with from reading the patch:
> >
> > ---------
> > Subject: add ASID-based tlbflushing methods
> >
> > Implement optimized version of the tlb flushing routines for systems
> > using ASIDs. These are behind the use_asid_allocator static branch to
> > not affect existing systems not using ASIDs.
> > ---------
>
> That seems much better, thanks.
>
> >> +static inline void local_flush_tlb_range_asid(unsigned long start,
> >> + unsigned long size, unsigned long asid)
> >> +{
> >> + unsigned long tmp, end = ALIGN(start + size, PAGE_SIZE);
> >> +
> >> + for (tmp = start & PAGE_MASK; tmp < end; tmp += PAGE_SIZE) {
> >> + __asm__ __volatile__ ("sfence.vma %0, %1"
> >> + :
> >> + : "r" (tmp), "r" (asid)
> >> + : "memory");
> >> + tmp += PAGE_SIZE;
> >> + }
> >
> > This double increments tmp.
> >
> > Also the non-ASID code switches to a global flush once flushing more
> > than a single page. It might be worth documenting the tradeoff in the
> > code.
>
> For some reason I thought we'd written this down in the commentary of
> teh ISA manual as the suggested huersitic here, but I can't find it so
> maybe I'm wrong. If it's actually there it would be good to point that
> out, otherwise some documentation seems fine as it'll probably become a
> tunable at some point anyway.
>From my view: "non-ASID code switches to a global flush all" is a
hardware bug fixup, so I just reserved it to prevent breaking other
machines.

The comment for the "non-ASID code" should be another patch.

>
> >> +static void __sbi_tlb_flush_range_asid(struct cpumask *cmask,
> >> + unsigned long start,
> >> + unsigned long size,
> >> + unsigned long asid)
> >> +{
> >
> > I don't think the calling conventions here are optimal. I'd pass
> > the mm_struct as the first argument, as we can derive both the cpumask
> > and asid from it instead of doing that in the callers.
> >
> > But more importantly I think the static branch check can be moved deeper
> > into the code to avoid a lot of duplication. What do you think of this
> > version?
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> > index b0659413a080..7030837adc1a 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> > @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ static inline int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk,
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > +DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(use_asid_allocator);
> > +
> > #include <asm-generic/mmu_context.h>
> >
> > #endif /* _ASM_RISCV_MMU_CONTEXT_H */
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/context.c b/arch/riscv/mm/context.c
> > index 68aa312fc352..45c1b04b105d 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/context.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/context.c
> > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> >
> > -static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(use_asid_allocator);
> > +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(use_asid_allocator);
> >
> > static unsigned long asid_bits;
> > static unsigned long num_asids;
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c b/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> > index 720b443c4528..d8afbb1269d5 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/tlbflush.c
> > @@ -4,6 +4,33 @@
> > #include <linux/smp.h>
> > #include <linux/sched.h>
> > #include <asm/sbi.h>
> > +#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> > +
> > +static inline void local_flush_tlb_all_asid(unsigned long asid)
> > +{
> > + __asm__ __volatile__ ("sfence.vma x0, %0"
> > + :
> > + : "r" (asid)
> > + : "memory");
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void local_flush_tlb_page_asid(unsigned long addr,
> > + unsigned long asid)
> > +{
> > + __asm__ __volatile__ ("sfence.vma %0, %1"
> > + :
> > + : "r" (addr), "r" (asid)
> > + : "memory");
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void local_flush_tlb_range_asid(unsigned long start,
> > + unsigned long size, unsigned long asid)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long addr, end = ALIGN(start + size, PAGE_SIZE);
> > +
> > + for (addr = start & PAGE_MASK; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE)
> > + local_flush_tlb_page_asid(addr, asid);
> > +}
> >
> > void flush_tlb_all(void)
> > {
> > @@ -12,28 +39,43 @@ void flush_tlb_all(void)
> >
> > /*
> > * This function must not be called with cmask being null.
> > - * Kernel may panic if cmask is NULL.
> > */
> > -static void __sbi_tlb_flush_range(struct cpumask *cmask, unsigned long start,
> > +static void __sbi_tlb_flush_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
> > unsigned long size)
> > {
> > + struct cpumask *cmask = mm_cpumask(mm);
> > struct cpumask hmask;
> > unsigned int cpuid;
> > + bool broadcast;
> >
> > if (cpumask_empty(cmask))
> > return;
> >
> > cpuid = get_cpu();
> > + /* check if the tlbflush needs to be sent to other CPUs */
> > + broadcast = cpumask_any_but(cmask, cpuid) < nr_cpu_ids;
> > + if (static_branch_unlikely(&use_asid_allocator)) {
> > + unsigned long asid = atomic_long_read(&mm->context.id);
> >
> > - if (cpumask_any_but(cmask, cpuid) >= nr_cpu_ids) {
> > - /* local cpu is the only cpu present in cpumask */
> > - if (size <= PAGE_SIZE)
> > + if (broadcast) {
> > + riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask(cmask, &hmask);
> > + sbi_remote_sfence_vma_asid(cpumask_bits(&hmask),
> > + start, size, asid);
> > + } else if (size != -1) {
> > + local_flush_tlb_range_asid(start, size, asid);
> > + } else {
> > + local_flush_tlb_all_asid(asid);
> > + }
> > + } else {
> > + if (broadcast) {
> > + riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask(cmask, &hmask);
> > + sbi_remote_sfence_vma(cpumask_bits(&hmask),
> > + start, size);
> > + } else if (size <= PAGE_SIZE) {
> > local_flush_tlb_page(start);
> > - else
> > + } else {
> > local_flush_tlb_all();
> > - } else {
> > - riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask(cmask, &hmask);
> > - sbi_remote_sfence_vma(cpumask_bits(&hmask), start, size);
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > put_cpu();
> > @@ -41,16 +83,16 @@ static void __sbi_tlb_flush_range(struct cpumask *cmask, unsigned long start,
> >
> > void flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > {
> > - __sbi_tlb_flush_range(mm_cpumask(mm), 0, -1);
> > + __sbi_tlb_flush_range(mm, 0, -1);
> > }
> >
> > void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
> > {
> > - __sbi_tlb_flush_range(mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm), addr, PAGE_SIZE);
> > + __sbi_tlb_flush_range(vma->vm_mm, addr, PAGE_SIZE);
> > }
> >
> > void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
> > unsigned long end)
> > {
> > - __sbi_tlb_flush_range(mm_cpumask(vma->vm_mm), start, end - start);
> > + __sbi_tlb_flush_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end - start);
> > }
>
> LGTM. I took the first one as IMO they're really distnict issues, LMK
> if you want to re-spin this one or if I should just take what's here.



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Guo Ren

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