From patchwork Thu Oct 22 06:41:48 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Dan Williams X-Patchwork-Id: 7462601 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-nvdimm@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-parsemail@patchwork1.web.kernel.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.136]) by patchwork1.web.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3AC9F302 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862542099D for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:47:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ml01.01.org (ml01.01.org [198.145.21.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 997662092A for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:47:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ml01.vlan14.01.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5E6077A; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:47:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-To: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Delivered-To: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300586077A for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:47:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Oct 2015 23:47:31 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,181,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="832768893" Received: from dwillia2-desk3.jf.intel.com (HELO dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com) ([10.54.39.39]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Oct 2015 23:47:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] pmem, dax: clean up clear_pmem() From: Dan Williams To: axboe@fb.com Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 02:41:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20151022064148.12700.3630.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20151022064142.12700.11849.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20151022064142.12700.11849.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-9-g687f MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: jack@suse.cz, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Dave Hansen , david@fromorbit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org X-BeenThere: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Linux-nvdimm developer list." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RP_MATCHES_RCVD, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Both, __dax_pmd_fault, and clear_pmem() were taking special steps to clear memory a page at a time to take advantage of non-temporal clear_page() implementations. However, x86_64 does not use non-temporal instructions for clear_page(), and arch_clear_pmem() was always incurring the cost of __arch_wb_cache_pmem(). Clean up the assumption that doing clear_pmem() a page at a time is more performant. Cc: Ross Zwisler Reported-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Dan Williams --- arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h | 7 +------ fs/dax.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h index d8ce3ec816ab..1544fabcd7f9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h @@ -132,12 +132,7 @@ static inline void arch_clear_pmem(void __pmem *addr, size_t size) { void *vaddr = (void __force *)addr; - /* TODO: implement the zeroing via non-temporal writes */ - if (size == PAGE_SIZE && ((unsigned long)vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) == 0) - clear_page(vaddr); - else - memset(vaddr, 0, size); - + memset(vaddr, 0, size); __arch_wb_cache_pmem(vaddr, size); } diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index a86d3cc2b389..5dc33d788d50 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -623,9 +623,7 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, goto fallback; if (buffer_unwritten(&bh) || buffer_new(&bh)) { - int i; - for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) - clear_pmem(kaddr + i * PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); + clear_pmem(kaddr, HPAGE_SIZE); wmb_pmem(); count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT); mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(vma->vm_mm, PGMAJFAULT);