Commit 7586bf72 authored by Vineet Gupta's avatar Vineet Gupta
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ARC: [mm] optimise icache flush for kernel mappings 



This change continues the theme from prev commit - this time icache
handling for kernel's own code modification (vmalloc: loadable modules,
breakpoints for kprobes/kgdb...)

flush_icache_range() calls the CDU icache helper with vaddr to enable
exact line invalidate.

For a true kernel-virtual mapping, the vaddr is actually virtual hence
valid as index into cache. For kprobes breakpoint however, the vaddr arg
is actually paddr - since that's how normal kernel is mapped in ARC
memory map.  This implies that CDU will use the same addr for
indexing as for tag match - which is fine since kernel code would only
have that "implicit" mapping and none other.

This should speed up module loading significantly - specially on default
ARC700 icache configurations (32k) which alias.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
parent 24603fdd

arch/arc/mm/cache_arc700.c

+10 −4
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -642,8 +642,8 @@ void dma_cache_wback(unsigned long start, unsigned long sz) 
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_cache_wback);



/*

 * This is API for making I/D Caches consistent when modifying code

 * (loadable modules, kprobes,  etc)

 * This is API for making I/D Caches consistent when modifying

 * kernel code (loadable modules, kprobes, kgdb...)

 * This is called on insmod, with kernel virtual address for CODE of

 * the module. ARC cache maintenance ops require PHY address thus we

 * need to convert vmalloc addr to PHY addr
@@ -673,7 +673,13 @@ void flush_icache_range(unsigned long kstart, unsigned long kend) 


	/* Case: Kernel Phy addr (0x8000_0000 onwards) */

	if (likely(kstart > PAGE_OFFSET)) {

		__ic_line_inv(kstart, kend - kstart);

		/*

		 * The 2nd arg despite being paddr will be used to index icache

		 * This is OK since no alternate virtual mappings will exist

		 * given the callers for this case: kprobe/kgdb in built-in

		 * kernel code only.

		 */

		__ic_line_inv_vaddr(kstart, kstart, kend - kstart);

		__dc_line_op(kstart, kend - kstart, OP_FLUSH);

		return;

	}
@@ -694,7 +700,7 @@ void flush_icache_range(unsigned long kstart, unsigned long kend) 
		sz = min_t(unsigned int, tot_sz, PAGE_SIZE - off);

		local_irq_save(flags);

		__dc_line_op(phy, sz, OP_FLUSH);

		__ic_line_inv(phy, sz);

		__ic_line_inv_vaddr(phy, kstart, sz);

		local_irq_restore(flags);

		kstart += sz;

		tot_sz -= sz;

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