Subject: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: Implement arch_wants_old_faultaround_pte()

From: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:39:50 +0000

On CPUs with hardware AF/DBM, initialising prefaulted PTEs as 'old'
improves vmscan behaviour and does not appear to introduce any overhead.

Implement arch_wants_old_faultaround_pte() to return 'true' if we detect
hardware access flag support at runtime. This can be extended in future
based on MIDR matching if necessary.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h    |  8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index da250e4741bd..3424f5881390 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -764,6 +764,18 @@ static inline bool cpu_has_hw_af(void)
 						ID_AA64MMFR1_HADBS_SHIFT);
 }
 
+static inline bool system_has_hw_af(void)
+{
+	u64 mmfr1;
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM))
+		return false;
+
+	mmfr1 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1);
+	return cpuid_feature_extract_unsigned_field(mmfr1,
+						ID_AA64MMFR1_HADBS_SHIFT);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_AMU_EXTN
 /* Check whether the cpu supports the Activity Monitors Unit (AMU) */
 extern bool cpu_has_amu_feat(int cpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 5628289b9d5e..d5c2a7625e9a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -974,7 +974,13 @@ static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
 
 	return !cpu_has_hw_af();
 }
-#define arch_faults_on_old_pte arch_faults_on_old_pte
+#define arch_faults_on_old_pte		arch_faults_on_old_pte
+
+/*
+ * Experimentally, it's cheap to set the access flag in hardware and we
+ * benefit from prefaulting mappings as 'old' to start with.
+ */
+#define arch_wants_old_faultaround_pte	system_has_hw_af
 
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
-- 
2.29.2.576.ga3fc446d84-goog

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