Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (b...@kernel.crashing.org): > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:35 -0700, Rex Feany wrote: > > > > Then I can boot and get to a shell, but userspace is slow. 8 seconds > > to mount > > /proc (vs. less then a second using my old kernel)! Maybe this is an > > unrelated issue? I'm pretty clueless about the details, I'm sorry. > > PG_arch_1 is used to prevent a cache flush unless it is actually > > needed? > > Then why would changing the location of the tlbil_va() make a > > difference? > > I think there's more finishyness to 8xx than we thought. IE. That > tlbil_va might have more reasons to be there than what the comment > seems to advertize. Can you try to move it even higher up ? IE. > Unconditionally at the beginning of set_pte_filter ? > > Also, if that doesn't help, can you try putting one in > set_access_flags_filter() just below ? > > (Beware that there's two different versions of both functions, only the > first one is compiled/used on 8xx). > > It's going to be hard for me to get that "right" since I don't really > know what's going on with the core here, but I suppose if we get it > moving along with extra tlb invalidations, that should be "good enough" > until somebody who really knows what's going on comes up with possibly > a better fix.
I've tried sticking tlbil_va() in those places, nothing seems to help. In some cases userspace is slow, in other cases userspace is faster and unstable: sometimes commands hang, sometimes I am able to ctrl-c and and kill it, sometimes I get other strange crashes or falures (so far no kernel oopses though). take care! /rex. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
