Commit d4e67854 authored by Anton Blanchard's avatar Anton Blanchard Committed by Stefan Bader

powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764666

[ Upstream commit a7a9dcd8 ]

Early on in do_page_fault() we call store_updates_sp(), regardless of
the type of exception. For an instruction miss this doesn't make
sense, because we only use this information to detect if a data miss
is the result of a stack expansion instruction or not.

Worse still, it results in a data miss within every userspace
instruction miss handler, because we try and load the very instruction
we are about to install a pte for!

A simple exec microbenchmark runs 6% faster on POWER8 with this fix:

 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	unsigned long left = atol(argv[1]);
	char leftstr[16];

	if (left-- == 0)
		return 0;

	sprintf(leftstr, "%ld", left);
	execlp(argv[0], argv[0], leftstr, NULL);
	perror("exec failed\n");

	return 0;
}

Pass the number of iterations on the command line (eg 10000) and time
how long it takes to execute.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
parent 16e5ee90
......@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ int __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
* can result in fault, which will cause a deadlock when called with
* mmap_sem held
*/
if (user_mode(regs))
if (!is_exec && user_mode(regs))
store_update_sp = store_updates_sp(regs);
if (user_mode(regs))
......
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