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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-04-17 18:03:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-17 18:03:11 -0700
commitdadeafdfc8da8c27e5a68e0706b9856eaac89391 (patch)
tree17993d26e93e598a2f449063fe213afad2a45814 /arch
parentfb65b9619b756793d824df7501c895a2c2871f40 (diff)
downloadlinux-dadeafdfc8da8c27e5a68e0706b9856eaac89391.tar.bz2
[PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushing
We were flushing the D-cache excessively for ptrace() processing and this makes debugging threads so slow as to be totally unusable. All process page accesses via ptrace() go via access_process_vm(). This routine, for each process page, uses get_user_pages(). That in turn does a flush_dcache_page() on the child pages before we copy in/out the ptrace request data. Therefore, all we need to do after the data movement is: 1) Flush the D-cache pages if the kernel maps the page to a different color than userspace does. 2) If we wrote to the page, we need to flush the I-cache on older cpus. Previously we just flushed the entire cache at the end of a ptrace() request, and that was beyond stupid. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c82
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 08bac537262a..5f080cf04b33 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -103,6 +103,55 @@ void ptrace_disable(struct task_struct *child)
/* nothing to do */
}
+/* To get the necessary page struct, access_process_vm() first calls
+ * get_user_pages(). This has done a flush_dcache_page() on the
+ * accessed page. Then our caller (copy_{to,from}_user_page()) did
+ * to memcpy to read/write the data from that page.
+ *
+ * Now, the only thing we have to do is:
+ * 1) flush the D-cache if it's possible than an illegal alias
+ * has been created
+ * 2) flush the I-cache if this is pre-cheetah and we did a write
+ */
+void flush_ptrace_access(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
+ unsigned long uaddr, void *kaddr,
+ unsigned long len, int write)
+{
+ BUG_ON(len > PAGE_SIZE);
+
+#ifdef DCACHE_ALIASING_POSSIBLE
+ /* If bit 13 of the kernel address we used to access the
+ * user page is the same as the virtual address that page
+ * is mapped to in the user's address space, we can skip the
+ * D-cache flush.
+ */
+ if ((uaddr ^ kaddr) & (1UL << 13)) {
+ unsigned long start = __pa(kaddr);
+ unsigned long end = start + len;
+
+ if (tlb_type == spitfire) {
+ for (; start < end; start += 32)
+ spitfire_put_dcache_tag(va & 0x3fe0, 0x0);
+ } else {
+ for (; start < end; start += 32)
+ __asm__ __volatile__(
+ "stxa %%g0, [%0] %1\n\t"
+ "membar #Sync"
+ : /* no outputs */
+ : "r" (va),
+ "i" (ASI_DCACHE_INVALIDATE));
+ }
+ }
+#endif
+ if (write && tlb_type == spitfire) {
+ unsigned long start = (unsigned long) kaddr;
+ unsigned long end = start + len;
+
+ for (; start < end; start += 32)
+ flushi(start);
+ }
+}
+
asmlinkage void do_ptrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
int request = regs->u_regs[UREG_I0];
@@ -227,7 +276,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_ptrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
pt_error_return(regs, -res);
else
pt_os_succ_return(regs, tmp64, (void __user *) data);
- goto flush_and_out;
+ goto out_tsk;
}
case PTRACE_POKETEXT: /* write the word at location addr. */
@@ -253,7 +302,7 @@ asmlinkage void do_ptrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
pt_error_return(regs, -res);
else
pt_succ_return(regs, res);
- goto flush_and_out;
+ goto out_tsk;
}
case PTRACE_GETREGS: {
@@ -485,12 +534,12 @@ asmlinkage void do_ptrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
(char __user *)addr2, data);
if (res == data) {
pt_succ_return(regs, 0);
- goto flush_and_out;
+ goto out_tsk;
}
if (res >= 0)
res = -EIO;
pt_error_return(regs, -res);
- goto flush_and_out;
+ goto out_tsk;
}
case PTRACE_WRITETEXT:
@@ -499,12 +548,12 @@ asmlinkage void do_ptrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
addr, data);
if (res == data) {
pt_succ_return(regs, 0);
- goto flush_and_out;
+ goto out_tsk;
}
if (res >= 0)
res = -EIO;
pt_error_return(regs, -res);
- goto flush_and_out;
+ goto out_tsk;
}
case PTRACE_SYSCALL: /* continue and stop at (return from) syscall */
addr = 1;
@@ -571,27 +620,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_ptrace(struct pt_regs *regs)
goto out_tsk;
}
}
-flush_and_out:
- {
- unsigned long va;
-
- if (tlb_type == cheetah || tlb_type == cheetah_plus) {
- for (va = 0; va < (1 << 16); va += (1 << 5))
- spitfire_put_dcache_tag(va, 0x0);
- /* No need to mess with I-cache on Cheetah. */
- } else {
- for (va = 0; va < L1DCACHE_SIZE; va += 32)
- spitfire_put_dcache_tag(va, 0x0);
- if (request == PTRACE_PEEKTEXT ||
- request == PTRACE_POKETEXT ||
- request == PTRACE_READTEXT ||
- request == PTRACE_WRITETEXT) {
- for (va = 0; va < (PAGE_SIZE << 1); va += 32)
- spitfire_put_icache_tag(va, 0x0);
- __asm__ __volatile__("flush %g6");
- }
- }
- }
out_tsk:
if (child)
put_task_struct(child);