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Mark Nelson
e423b9ecd6 powerpc: Fix 64bit memcpy() regression
This fixes a regression introduced by commit
25d6e2d7c5 ("powerpc: Update 64bit memcpy()
using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD").

This commit allowed CPUs that have the CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD CPU
feature bit present to do the memcpy() with unaligned load doubles. But,
along with this came a bug where our final load double would read bytes
beyond a page boundary and into the next (unmapped) page. This was caught
by enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,

The fix was to read only the number of bytes that we need to store rather
than reading a full 8-byte doubleword and storing only a portion of that.

In order to minimise the amount of existing code touched we use the
original do_tail for the src_unaligned case.

Below is an example of the regression, as reported by Sachin Sant:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc00000003f380000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000039574
cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000003baf3020]
    pc: c000000000039574: .memcpy+0x74/0x244
    lr: d00000000244916c: .ext3_xattr_get+0x288/0x2f4 [ext3]
    sp: c00000003baf32a0
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: c00000003f380000
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc00000003e54b010
  paca    = 0xc000000000a53680
    pid   = 1840, comm = readahead
enter ? for help
[link register   ] d00000000244916c .ext3_xattr_get+0x288/0x2f4 [ext3]
[c00000003baf32a0] d000000002449104 .ext3_xattr_get+0x220/0x2f4 [ext3]
(unreliab
le)
[c00000003baf3390] d00000000244a6e8 .ext3_xattr_security_get+0x40/0x5c [ext3]
[c00000003baf3400] c000000000148154 .generic_getxattr+0x74/0x9c
[c00000003baf34a0] c000000000333400 .inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x1c4/0x678
[c00000003baf3560] c00000000032c6b0 .security_d_instantiate+0x50/0x68
[c00000003baf35e0] c00000000013c818 .d_instantiate+0x78/0x9c
[c00000003baf3680] c00000000013ced0 .d_splice_alias+0xf0/0x120
[c00000003baf3720] d00000000243e05c .ext3_lookup+0xec/0x134 [ext3]
[c00000003baf37c0] c000000000131e74 .do_lookup+0x110/0x260
[c00000003baf3880] c000000000134ed0 .__link_path_walk+0xa98/0x1010
[c00000003baf3970] c0000000001354a0 .path_walk+0x58/0xc4
[c00000003baf3a20] c000000000135720 .do_path_lookup+0x138/0x1e4
[c00000003baf3ad0] c00000000013645c .path_lookup_open+0x6c/0xc8
[c00000003baf3b70] c000000000136780 .do_filp_open+0xcc/0x874
[c00000003baf3d10] c0000000001251e0 .do_sys_open+0x80/0x140
[c00000003baf3dc0] c00000000016aaec .compat_sys_open+0x24/0x38
[c00000003baf3e30] c00000000000855c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-02-26 14:02:53 +11:00
Mark Nelson
25d6e2d7c5 powerpc: Update 64bit memcpy() using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD
Update memcpy() to add two new feature sections: one for aligning the
destination before copying and one for copying using aligned load
and store doubles.

These new feature sections will only affect Power6 and Cell because
the CPU feature bit was only added to these two processors.

Power6 gets its best performance in memcpy() when aligning neither the
source nor the destination, while Cell gets its best performance when
just the destination is aligned. But in order to save on CPU feature
bits we can use the previously added CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ feature bit
to differentiate between Power6 and Cell (because CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ
was added to Cell but not Power6).

The first feature section acts to nop out the branch that takes us to
the code that aligns us to an eight byte boundary for the destination.
We only want to nop out this branch on Power6.

So the ALT_FTR_SECTION_END() for this feature section creates a test
mask of the two feature bits ORed together and provides an expected
result of just CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD, thus we nop out the branch
if we're on a CPU that has CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD set and
CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ unset.

For the second feature section added, if we're on a CPU that has the
CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD bit set then we don't want to do the copy
with aligned loads and stores (and the appropriate shifting left and
right instructions), so we want to nop out the branch to
.Lsrc_unaligned.

The andi. used for this branch is moved to just above the branch
because this allows us to nop out both instructions with just one
feature section which gives us better performance and doesn't hurt
readability which two separate feature sections did.

Moving the andi. to just above the branch doesn't have any noticeable
negative effect on the remaining 64bit processors (the ones that
didn't have this feature bit added).

On Cell this simple modification results in an improvement to measured
memcpy() bandwidth of up to 50% in the hot cache case and up to 15% in
the cold cache case.

On Power6 we get memory bandwidth results that are up to three times
faster in the hot cache case and up to 50% faster in the cold cache
case.

Commit 2a9294369b ("powerpc: Add new CPU
feature: CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ") was where CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ was
added.

To say that Cell gets its best performance in memcpy() with just the
destination aligned is true but only for the reason that the indirect
shift and rotate instructions, sld and srd, are microcoded on Cell.
This means that either the destination or the source can be aligned,
but not both, and seeing as we get better performance with the
destination aligned we choose this option.

While we're at it make a one line change from cmpldi r1,... to
cmpldi cr1,... for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-11-05 22:08:29 +11:00
Olof Johansson
3467bfd340 [POWERPC] Use mtocrf instruction in asm when CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY=y
mtocrf is a faster single-field mtcrf (move to condition register
fields) instruction available in POWER4 and later processors.  It can
make quite a difference in performance on some implementations, so use
it for CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY builds.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 03:55:13 +10:00
Paul Mackerras
d0027bf09f [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy
As pointed out by Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, our
memcpy implementation didn't return the destination pointer as its
return value, and there is code in the kernel that expects that.
This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-31 13:22:58 +10:00
Jon Mason
2ef9481e66 [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of files
This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree.  I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-10 16:53:51 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
70d64ceaa1 powerpc: Rename files to have consistent _32/_64 suffixes
This doesn't change any code, just renames things so we consistently
have foo_32.c and foo_64.c where we have separate 32- and 64-bit
versions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-10 21:52:43 +10:00