linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] riscv: support arch_has_hw_pte

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Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:49:56 +0800
From:   Jinyu Tang <tjytimi@....com>
To:     palmer@...osinc.com, paul.walmsley@...ive.com, palmer@...belt.com,
        yuzhao@...gle.com, conor.dooley@...rochip.com,
        ajones@...tanamicro.com, guoren@...nel.org, tongtiangen@...wei.com,
        anup@...infault.org
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, falcon@...ylab.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jinyu Tang <tjytimi@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] riscv: support arch_has_hw_pte_young()

The arch_has_hw_pte_young() is false for riscv by default. If it's
false, page table walk is almost skipped for MGLRU reclaim. And it
will also cause useless step in __wp_page_copy_user().

RISC-V Privileged Book says that riscv have two schemes to manage A
and D bit.

So add a config for selecting, the default is true. For simple
implementation riscv CPU which just generate page fault, unselect it.

Signed-off-by: Jinyu Tang <tjytimi@....com>
---
 arch/riscv/Kconfig               | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index e2b656043abf..17c82885549c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -180,6 +180,16 @@ config PAGE_OFFSET
 	default 0x80000000 if 64BIT && !MMU
 	default 0xff60000000000000 if 64BIT
 
+config ARCH_HAS_HARDWARE_PTE_YOUNG
+	bool "Hardware Set PTE Access Bit"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Select if hardware set A bit when PTE is accessed. The default is
+	  'Y', because most RISC-V CPU hardware can manage A and D bit.
+	  But RISC-V may have simple implementation that do not support
+	  hardware set A bit but only generate page fault, for that case just
+	  unselect it.
+
 config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
 	hex
 	depends on KASAN_GENERIC
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 4eba9a98d0e3..1db54ab4e1ba 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -532,6 +532,13 @@ static inline int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	 */
 	return ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, address, ptep);
 }
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HARDWARE_PTE_YOUNG
+#define arch_has_hw_pte_young arch_has_hw_pte_young
+static inline bool arch_has_hw_pte_young(void)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#endif
 
 #define pgprot_noncached pgprot_noncached
 static inline pgprot_t pgprot_noncached(pgprot_t _prot)
-- 
2.30.2