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The ISA suggests ptesync after setting a pte, to prevent a table walk initiated by a subsequent access from missing that store and causing a spurious fault. This is an architectual allowance that allows an implementation's page table walker to be incoherent with the store queue. However there is no correctness problem in taking a spurious fault in userspace -- the kernel copes with these at any time, so the updated pte will be found eventually. Spurious kernel faults on vmap memory must be avoided, so a ptesync is put into flush_cache_vmap. On POWER9 so far I have not found a measurable window where this can result in more minor faults, so as an optimisation, remove the costly ptesync from pte updates. If an implementation benefits from ptesync, it would be better to add it back in update_mmu_cache, so it's not done for things like fork(2). fork --fork --exec benchmark improved 5.2% (12400->13100). Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.