linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] arm64: tlb: add support for TTL feature

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Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:41:44 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Cc:     Zhenyu Ye <yezhenyu2@...wei.com>, will@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] arm64: tlb: add support for TTL feature

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:15:58PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Zhenyu,
> 
> On 3/24/20 1:45 PM, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
> > In order to reduce the cost of TLB invalidation, the ARMv8.4 TTL
> > feature allows TLBs to be issued with a level allowing for quicker
> > invalidation.  This series provide support for this feature. 
> > 
> > Patch 1 and Patch 2 was provided by Marc on his NV series[1] patches,
> > which detect the TTL feature and add __tlbi_level interface.
> 
> How does this interact with THP?
> (I don't see anything on that in the series.)
> 
> With THP, there is no one answer to the size of mapping in a VMA.
> This is a problem because the arm-arm has in "Translation table level
> hints" in D5.10.2 of DDI0487E.a:
> | If an incorrect value for the entry being invalidated by the
> | instruction is specified in the TTL field, then no entries are
> | required by the architecture to be invalidated from the TLB.
> 
> If we get it wrong, not TLB maintenance occurs!
> 
> Unless THP leaves its fingerprints on the vma, I think you can only do
> this for VMA types that THP can't mess with. (see
> transparent_hugepage_enabled())

The convention way to deal with that is to issue the TBLI for all
possible sizes.

Power9 has all this, please look there.