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Ryan Roberts 1fcb7cea8a arm64: mm: Batch dsb and isb when populating pgtables
After removing uneccessary TLBIs, the next bottleneck when creating the
page tables for the linear map is DSB and ISB, which were previously
issued per-pte in __set_pte(). Since we are writing multiple ptes in a
given pte table, we can elide these barriers and insert them once we
have finished writing to the table.

Execution time of map_mem(), which creates the kernel linear map page
tables, was measured on different machines with different RAM configs:

               | Apple M2 VM | Ampere Altra| Ampere Altra| Ampere Altra
               | VM, 16G     | VM, 64G     | VM, 256G    | Metal, 512G
---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
               |   ms    (%) |   ms    (%) |   ms    (%) |    ms    (%)
---------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------
before         |   78   (0%) |  435   (0%) | 1723   (0%) |  3779   (0%)
after          |   11 (-86%) |  161 (-63%) |  656 (-62%) |  1654 (-56%)

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240412131908.433043-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2024-04-12 16:45:05 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.