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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2018-06-01 20:01:18 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-06-03 20:40:35 +1000
commit68662f85f3c3ea8a6fb61586a05955ab51bbb9e6 (patch)
tree546d2ada5dd5d7e9fe1901285f23c9df67d0b224 /arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
parentf569bd94efc821f485cb4742858fdfe16f03c201 (diff)
downloadlinux-68662f85f3c3ea8a6fb61586a05955ab51bbb9e6.tar.gz
powerpc/64s/radix: prefetch user address in update_mmu_cache
Prefetch the faulting address in update_mmu_cache to give the page table walker perhaps 100 cycles head start as locks are dropped and the interrupt completed. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index c3c39b02b2ba7..8cecda4bd66ae 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -509,8 +509,10 @@ void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
*/
unsigned long access, trap;
- if (radix_enabled())
+ if (radix_enabled()) {
+ prefetch((void *)address);
return;
+ }
/* We only want HPTEs for linux PTEs that have _PAGE_ACCESSED set */
if (!pte_young(*ptep) || address >= TASK_SIZE)