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Message ID 1525247602-1565-1-git-send-email-opensource.ganesh@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Mahendran Ganesh May 2, 2018, 7:53 a.m. UTC
Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
enables Speculative Page Fault handler.

Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
---
This patch is on top of Laurent's v10 spf
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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Will Deacon May 2, 2018, 12:23 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 03:53:21PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
> enables Speculative Page Fault handler.

Are there are tests for this? I'm really nervous about enabling it...

Will

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
> ---
> This patch is on top of Laurent's v10 spf
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index eb2cf49..cd583a9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ config ARM64
>  	select SPARSE_IRQ
>  	select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
>  	select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> +	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT if SMP
>  	help
>  	  ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>
Mahendran Ganesh May 4, 2018, 6:05 a.m. UTC | #2
2018-05-02 20:23 GMT+08:00 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>:
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 03:53:21PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
>> Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
>> enables Speculative Page Fault handler.
>
> Are there are tests for this? I'm really nervous about enabling it...

Hi, Will

I test the arm64 spf on Qcom SDM845 cpu with kernel 4.9.
It looks good for performance, and have not found stability issue yet.

Thanks.

>
> Will
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> This patch is on top of Laurent's v10 spf
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> index eb2cf49..cd583a9 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ config ARM64
>>       select SPARSE_IRQ
>>       select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
>>       select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
>> +     select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT if SMP
>>       help
>>         ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.
>>
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index eb2cf49..cd583a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@  config ARM64
 	select SPARSE_IRQ
 	select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
 	select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
+	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT if SMP
 	help
 	  ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.