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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2021-05-03 19:17:55 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2021-05-04 11:06:45 +1000
commit8abddd968a303db75e4debe77a3df484164f1f33 (patch)
treeb3ea95c6553f6738df1ca51c25794c701e7f69d0 /arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
parent562d1e207d322e6346e8db91bbd11d94f16427d2 (diff)
powerpc/64s/radix: Enable huge vmalloc mappings
This reduces TLB misses by nearly 30x on a `git diff` workload on a 2-node POWER9 (59,800 -> 2,100) and reduces CPU cycles by 0.54%, due to vfs hashes being allocated with 2MB pages. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503091755.613393-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c18
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
index fab84024650c..3f35c8d20be7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/moduleloader.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <asm/module.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -88,17 +89,22 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
return 0;
}
-#ifdef MODULES_VADDR
static __always_inline void *
__module_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
- return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, start, end, GFP_KERNEL,
- PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE,
- __builtin_return_address(0));
+ /*
+ * Don't do huge page allocations for modules yet until more testing
+ * is done. STRICT_MODULE_RWX may require extra work to support this
+ * too.
+ */
+ return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, start, end, GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
+ VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS | VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP,
+ NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
}
void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
{
+#ifdef MODULES_VADDR
unsigned long limit = (unsigned long)_etext - SZ_32M;
void *ptr = NULL;
@@ -112,5 +118,7 @@ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
ptr = __module_alloc(size, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END);
return ptr;
-}
+#else
+ return __module_alloc(size, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END);
#endif
+}