From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f179.google.com (mail-pf0-f179.google.com [209.85.192.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881406B0263 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:37:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by pfdd184 with SMTP id d184so39744986pfd.3 for ; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com. [192.55.52.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 21si16740868pfq.214.2015.12.09.18.37.42 for ; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:37:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [-mm PATCH v2 01/25] pmem, dax: clean up clear_pmem() From: Dan Williams Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:37:15 -0800 Message-ID: <20151210023715.30368.74651.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.jf.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20151210023708.30368.92962.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.jf.intel.com> References: <20151210023708.30368.92962.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Ross Zwisler , Dave Hansen , Jeff Moyer , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org 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. Reported-by: Dave Hansen Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer 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 43671b68220e..19492cc65a30 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -641,9 +641,7 @@ 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, PMD_SIZE); wmb_pmem(); count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT); mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(vma->vm_mm, PGMAJFAULT); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org