[PATCH] riscv: Only flush the mm icache when setting an exec pte

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Fri Feb 02 2024 - 07:47:22 EST


We used to emit a flush_icache_all() whenever a dirty executable
mapping is set in the page table but we can instead call
flush_icache_mm() which will only send IPIs to cores that currently run
this mm and add a deferred icache flush to the others.

The number of calls to sbi_remote_fence_i() (tested without IPI
support):

With a simple buildroot rootfs:
* Before: ~5k
* After : 4 (!)

Tested on HW, the boot to login is ~4.5% faster.

With an ubuntu rootfs:
* Before: ~24k
* After : ~13k

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 +++++++-------
arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c | 4 ++--
arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 0c94260b5d0c..058cfa89dd29 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -513,12 +513,12 @@ static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pteval)
WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pteval);
}

-void flush_icache_pte(pte_t pte);
+void flush_icache_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t pte);

-static inline void __set_pte_at(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pteval)
+static inline void __set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pteval)
{
if (pte_present(pteval) && pte_exec(pteval))
- flush_icache_pte(pteval);
+ flush_icache_pte(mm, pteval);

set_pte(ptep, pteval);
}
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
page_table_check_ptes_set(mm, ptep, pteval, nr);

for (;;) {
- __set_pte_at(ptep, pteval);
+ __set_pte_at(mm, ptep, pteval);
if (--nr == 0)
break;
ptep++;
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
static inline void pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
{
- __set_pte_at(ptep, __pte(0));
+ __set_pte_at(mm, ptep, __pte(0));
}

#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS /* defined in mm/pgtable.c */
@@ -707,14 +707,14 @@ static inline void set_pmd_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
{
page_table_check_pmd_set(mm, pmdp, pmd);
- return __set_pte_at((pte_t *)pmdp, pmd_pte(pmd));
+ return __set_pte_at(mm, (pte_t *)pmdp, pmd_pte(pmd));
}

static inline void set_pud_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud)
{
page_table_check_pud_set(mm, pudp, pud);
- return __set_pte_at((pte_t *)pudp, pud_pte(pud));
+ return __set_pte_at(mm, (pte_t *)pudp, pud_pte(pud));
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
index b0774993c0f3..3e234e95d952 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@ void flush_icache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, bool local)
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-void flush_icache_pte(pte_t pte)
+void flush_icache_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t pte)
{
struct folio *folio = page_folio(pte_page(pte));

if (!test_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &folio->flags)) {
- flush_icache_all();
+ flush_icache_mm(mm, false);
set_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &folio->flags);
}
}
diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c
index ef887efcb679..533ec9055fa0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte_t entry, int dirty)
{
if (!pte_same(ptep_get(ptep), entry))
- __set_pte_at(ptep, entry);
+ __set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, ptep, entry);
/*
* update_mmu_cache will unconditionally execute, handling both
* the case that the PTE changed and the spurious fault case.
--
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