Subject: Re: mpc880 linux-2.6.32 slow running processes

From: michael <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:23:33 +0100

Hi

On 01/05/2011 07:09 PM, Rafael Beims wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm working with an MPC880 board that is supposed to run linux-2.6.32. After
> some work, I could get the kernel up and running, mounting a rootfs via
> NFS.
> The problem that I'm facing now is that when I try to run any process (may
> be an ls, cat, or whatever), the response of the process is *very* slow
> (something like 10 to 20 seconds for a ls).
> Monitoring the network packets, I can see that the nfs protocol is exchanged
> just fine, but at some time it simply stops, starting again with a request
> from the board several seconds later.
> I'm thinking that the processor is running (something, I don't know what)
> for all this time before I can see requests coming from the board again. I
> pinged the board from the PC and during all this I can see the packets being
> answered.
>
Can you try this patch?

> My question to all is, did anyone see something like this already? Besides
> that, what is the status of the linux kernel support for the 8xx platform?
> Is it being actively tested / used today? I ask this because it seems that
> all the information on the internet very aged (forum discussions from 2005
> and below mostly).
>
> Is there something that I can do to try to narrow the cause of the problem?
>
> Anyway, any help would be truly appreciated. Please excuse me if this is not
> the right place to ask this too.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Rafael Beims
> [email-masked]
> (41) 8873-7565
> "What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. And what I do, I
> understand."
> - Chinese Proverb
>
>
>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h
index dd5ea95..cb67076 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #define _PAGE_FILE	0x0002	/* when !present: nonlinear file mapping */
 #define _PAGE_NO_CACHE	0x0002	/* I: cache inhibit */
 #define _PAGE_SHARED	0x0004	/* No ASID (context) compare */
-#define _PAGE_SPECIAL	0x0008	/* SW entry, forced to 0 by the TLB miss */
+#define _PAGE_SPECIAL	0x0000	/* SW entry, forced to 0 by the TLB miss */
 
 /* These five software bits must be masked out when the entry is loaded
  * into the TLB.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
index f2b3701..3b88376 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h
@@ -176,5 +176,7 @@ extern unsigned long bad_call_to_PMD_PAGE_SIZE(void);
 #define HAVE_PAGE_AGP
 
 /* Advertise support for _PAGE_SPECIAL */
+#if _PAGE_SPECIAL != 0
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
+#endif
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
index 5304093..1da03a8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -173,21 +173,29 @@ static pte_t set_pte_filter(pte_t pte, unsigned long addr)
 	pte = __pte(pte_val(pte) & ~_PAGE_HPTEFLAGS);
 	if (pte_looks_normal(pte) && !(cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE) ||
 				       cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE))) {
-		struct page *pg = maybe_pte_to_page(pte);
-		if (!pg)
+		unsigned long pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
+		struct page *pg;
+
+		if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(pfn)))
 			return pte;
-		if (!test_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags)) {
+
+		pg = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 #ifdef CONFIG_8xx
-			/* On 8xx, cache control instructions (particularly
-			 * "dcbst" from flush_dcache_icache) fault as write
-			 * operation if there is an unpopulated TLB entry
-			 * for the address in question. To workaround that,
-			 * we invalidate the TLB here, thus avoiding dcbst
-			 * misbehaviour.
-			 */
-			/* 8xx doesn't care about PID, size or ind args */
-			_tlbil_va(addr, 0, 0, 0);
+		/* On 8xx, cache control instructions (particularly
+		 * "dcbst" from flush_dcache_icache) fault as write
+		 * operation if there is an unpopulated TLB entry
+		 * for the address in question. To workaround that,
+		 * we invalidate the TLB here, thus avoiding dcbst
+		 * misbehaviour.
+		 */
+		/* 8xx doesn't care about PID, size or ind args */
+		_tlbil_va(addr, 0, 0, 0);
 #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */
+
+		if (!pg)
+			return pte;
+
+		if (!PageReserved(pg) && !test_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags)) {
 			flush_dcache_icache_page(pg);
 			set_bit(PG_arch_1, &pg->flags);
 		}