From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:40:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va2fbuz5.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190117121328.13395-4-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:
> On machines with 1TB segments and a 32-entry SLB it's quite hard to
> cause sufficient SLB pressure to trigger bugs caused due to badly
> timed SLB faults.
>
> We have seen this in the past and a few years ago added the
> disable_1tb_segments command line option to force the use of 256MB
> segments. However even this allows some bugs to slip through testing
> if the SLB entry in question was recently accessed.
>
> So add a new command line parameter for debugging which shrinks the
> SLB to the minimum size we can support. Currently that size is 3, two
> bolted SLBs and 1 for dynamic use. This creates the maximal SLB
> pressure while still allowing the kernel to operate.
>
Should we put this within DEBUG_VM?
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
> index 61450a9cf30d..0f33e28f97da 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
> @@ -506,10 +506,24 @@ void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
> asm volatile("isync" : : : "memory");
> }
>
> +static bool shrink_slb = false;
> +
> +static int __init parse_shrink_slb(char *p)
> +{
> + shrink_slb = true;
> + slb_set_size(0);
Why do we need call slb_set_size(0) here? htab_dt_scan_seg_sizes should
find the shirnk_slb = true?
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +early_param("shrink_slb", parse_shrink_slb);
> +
> static u32 slb_full_bitmap;
>
> void slb_set_size(u16 size)
> {
> + if (shrink_slb)
> + size = SLB_NUM_BOLTED + 1;
> +
> mmu_slb_size = size;
>
> if (size >= 32)
> --
> 2.20.1
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-17 12:13 [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/64s: Always set mmu_slb_size using slb_set_size() Michael Ellerman
2019-01-17 12:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64s: Add slb_full_bitmap rather than hard-coding U32_MAX Michael Ellerman
2019-01-17 16:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-01-18 12:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-18 23:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-01-23 9:02 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-01-17 12:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/64s: Move SLB init into hash_utils_64.c Michael Ellerman
2019-01-23 9:04 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-01-17 12:13 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging Michael Ellerman
2019-01-19 0:13 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-01-19 10:27 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-23 8:40 ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-01-23 9:10 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2019-01-23 8:59 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/64s: Always set mmu_slb_size using slb_set_size() Aneesh Kumar K.V
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