[For Xen-4.10 PATCH v2 0/3] Reduce unnecessary icache maintenance operations

[Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>]

Hi,

This series improves the number of icache flushes performed when
allocating memory to a domain. This series was previously posted at
[0] and [1].

Changes
v1 -> v2:
* Updated tags
* Added a comment for icache_invalidate() definition for x86 to
  explain why it is empty.

RFC -> v1:

* Fixed coding style issue in Patch 1
* Added reviewed-by tags
* Re-worked Patch 3 to defer icache optimisation only during domain creation

Patch 1 adds a parameter to flush_page_to_ram() to prevent performing
icache maintenance per page. Current calls to flush_page_to_ram() loop
over pages and performing a full icache flush for each page is
excessive.

Patch 2 hoists icache maintenance from flush_page_to_ram() to
p2m_cache_flush().

Patch 3 introduces a new MEMF_ flag to indicate to alloc_heap_pages()
that icache maintenance will be performed by the caller. The icache
maintenance operations are performed in populate_physmap() during
domain creation. As I couldn't find icache maintenance operations for
x86, an empty helper is introduced.

If there are no further comments, please consider for inclusion.

Thanks,
Punit

[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@lists.xen.org/msg108002.html
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/xen-devel@lists.xen.org/msg102934.html

Punit Agrawal (3):
  Allow control of icache invalidations when calling flush_page_to_ram()
  arm: p2m: Prevent redundant icache flushes
  Avoid excess icache flushes in populate_physmap() before domain has
    been created

 xen/arch/arm/mm.c              |  5 +++--
 xen/arch/arm/p2m.c             |  4 +++-
 xen/common/memory.c            | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 xen/common/page_alloc.c        |  2 +-
 xen/include/asm-arm/page.h     |  2 +-
 xen/include/asm-x86/flushtlb.h |  2 +-
 xen/include/asm-x86/page.h     |  8 ++++++++
 xen/include/xen/mm.h           |  2 ++
 8 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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2.11.0


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