[PATCH] spufs: always map local store non-guarded

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 07:47:34 EST


When fixing spufs to map the 'mem' file backing store cacheable,
I incorrectly set the physical mapping to use both cache-inhibited
and guarded mapping, which resulted in a serious performance
degradation.

Accessing the real local store memory needs to be cache-inhibited,
in order to maintain data consistency, but since it is actual
RAM, there is no point in a guarded mapping.

Debugged-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

This fixes a regression in 2.6.19, please merge.

Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@ spufs_mem_mmap_nopage(struct vm_area_str

if (ctx->state == SPU_STATE_SAVED) {
vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot)
- & ~(_PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_GUARDED));
+ & ~_PAGE_NO_CACHE);
page = vmalloc_to_page(ctx->csa.lscsa->ls + offset);
} else {
vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot)
- | _PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_GUARDED);
+ | _PAGE_NO_CACHE);
page = pfn_to_page((ctx->spu->local_store_phys + offset)
>> PAGE_SHIFT);
}
-
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