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2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Turn off TSB growing for now.David S. Miller
There are several tricky races involved with growing the TSB. So just use base-size TSBs for user contexts and we can revisit enabling this later. One part of the SMP problems is that tsb_context_switch() can see partially updated TSB configuration state if tsb_grow() is running in parallel. That's easily solved with a seqlock taken as a writer by tsb_grow() and taken as a reader to capture all the TSB config state in tsb_context_switch(). Then there is flush_tsb_user() running in parallel with a tsb_grow(). In theory we could take the seqlock as a reader there too, and just resample the TSB pointer and reflush but that looks really ugly. Lastly, I believe there is a case with threads that results in a TSB entry lock bit being set spuriously which will cause the next access to that TSB entry to wedge the cpu (since the TSB entry lock bit will never clear). It's either copy_tsb() or some bug elsewhere in the TSB assembly. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Access TSB with physical addresses when possible.David S. Miller
This way we don't need to lock the TSB into the TLB. The trick is that every TSB load/store is registered into a special instruction patch section. The default uses virtual addresses, and the patch instructions use physical address load/stores. We can't do this on all chips because only cheetah+ and later have the physical variant of the atomic quad load. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Increase swapper_tsb size to 32K.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Fix incorrect TSB lock bit handling.David S. Miller
The TSB_LOCK_BIT define is actually a special value shifted down by 32-bits for the assembler code macros. In C code, this isn't what we want. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Dynamically grow TSB in response to RSS growth.David S. Miller
As the RSS grows, grow the TSB in order to reduce the likelyhood of hash collisions and thus poor hit rates in the TSB. This definitely needs some serious tuning. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Add infrastructure for dynamic TSB sizing.David S. Miller
This also cleans up tsb_context_switch(). The assembler routine is now __tsb_context_switch() and the former is an inline function that picks out the bits from the mm_struct and passes it into the assembler code as arguments. setup_tsb_parms() computes the locked TLB entry to map the TSB. Later when we support using the physical address quad load instructions of Cheetah+ and later, we'll simply use the physical address for the TSB register value and set the map virtual and PTE both to zero. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: TSB refinements.David S. Miller
Move {init_new,destroy}_context() out of line. Do not put huge pages into the TSB, only base page size translations. There are some clever things we could do here, but for now let's be correct instead of fancy. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[SPARC64]: Move away from virtual page tables, part 1.David S. Miller
We now use the TSB hardware assist features of the UltraSPARC MMUs. SMP is currently knowingly broken, we need to find another place to store the per-cpu base pointers. We hid them away in the TSB base register, and that obviously will not work any more :-) Another known broken case is non-8KB base page size. Also noticed that flush_tlb_all() is not referenced anywhere, only the internal __flush_tlb_all() (local cpu only) is used by the sparc64 port, so we can get rid of flush_tlb_all(). The kernel gets it's own 8KB TSB (swapper_tsb) and each address space gets it's own private 8K TSB. Later we can add code to dynamically increase the size of per-process TSB as the RSS grows. An 8KB TSB is good enough for up to about a 4MB RSS, after which the TSB starts to incur many capacity and conflict misses. We even accumulate OBP translations into the kernel TSB. Another area for refinement is large page size support. We could use a secondary address space TSB to handle those. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>