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2009-02-26powerpc: Fix 64bit memcpy() regressionMark Nelson
This fixes a regression introduced by commit 25d6e2d7c58ddc4a3b614fc5381591c0cfe66556 ("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>
2008-11-05powerpc: Update 64bit memcpy() using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STDMark Nelson
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 2a9294369bd020db89bfdf78b84c3615b39a5c84 ("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>
2007-04-13[POWERPC] Use mtocrf instruction in asm when CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY=yOlof Johansson
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>
2006-08-31[POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpyPaul Mackerras
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>
2006-02-10[PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of filesJon Mason
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>
2005-10-10powerpc: Rename files to have consistent _32/_64 suffixesPaul Mackerras
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>