riscv: mm: Pre-allocate PGD entries for vmalloc/modules area

The RISC-V port requires that kernel PGD entries are to be
synchronized between MMs. This is done via the vmalloc_fault()
function, that simply copies the PGD entries from init_mm to the
faulting one.

Historically, faulting in PGD entries have been a source for both bugs
[1], and poor performance.

One way to get rid of vmalloc faults is by pre-allocating the PGD
entries. Pre-allocating the entries potientially wastes 64 * 4K (65 on
SV39). The pre-allocation function is pulled from Jörg Rödel's x86
work, with the addition of 3-level page tables (PMD allocations).

The pmd_alloc() function needs the ptlock cache to be initialized
(when split page locks is enabled), so the pre-allocation is done in a
RISC-V specific pgtable_cache_init() implementation.

Pre-allocate the kernel PGD entries for the vmalloc/modules area, but
only for 64b platforms.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200508144043.13893-1-joro@8bytes.org/ # [1]
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531093817.665799-1-bjorn@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 747e5b1ef02d..45ceaff5679e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -1363,3 +1363,61 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
 	return vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node, NULL);
 }
 #endif
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
+/*
+ * Pre-allocates page-table pages for a specific area in the kernel
+ * page-table. Only the level which needs to be synchronized between
+ * all page-tables is allocated because the synchronization can be
+ * expensive.
+ */
+static void __init preallocate_pgd_pages_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+					       const char *area)
+{
+	unsigned long addr;
+	const char *lvl;
+
+	for (addr = start; addr < end && addr >= start; addr = ALIGN(addr + 1, PGDIR_SIZE)) {
+		pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
+		p4d_t *p4d;
+		pud_t *pud;
+		pmd_t *pmd;
+
+		lvl = "p4d";
+		p4d = p4d_alloc(&init_mm, pgd, addr);
+		if (!p4d)
+			goto failed;
+
+		if (pgtable_l5_enabled)
+			continue;
+
+		lvl = "pud";
+		pud = pud_alloc(&init_mm, p4d, addr);
+		if (!pud)
+			goto failed;
+
+		if (pgtable_l4_enabled)
+			continue;
+
+		lvl = "pmd";
+		pmd = pmd_alloc(&init_mm, pud, addr);
+		if (!pmd)
+			goto failed;
+	}
+	return;
+
+failed:
+	/*
+	 * The pages have to be there now or they will be missing in
+	 * process page-tables later.
+	 */
+	panic("Failed to pre-allocate %s pages for %s area\n", lvl, area);
+}
+
+void __init pgtable_cache_init(void)
+{
+	preallocate_pgd_pages_range(VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END, "vmalloc");
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES))
+		preallocate_pgd_pages_range(MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END, "bpf/modules");
+}
+#endif