The following implements support for instantiation of 8MB D-TLB
entries for the kernel direct virtual mapping on 8xx, thus reducing TLB
space consumed for the kernel.
Test used: writing 40MB from /dev/zero to file in ext2fs over
RAMDISK.
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4k count=10000
VANILLA 8MB kernel data pages
real 0m11.485s real 0m11.267s
user 0m0.218s user 0m0.250s
sys 0m8.939s sys 0m9.108s
real 0m11.518s real 0m10.978s
user 0m0.203s user 0m0.222s
sys 0m9.585s sys 0m9.138s
real 0m11.554s real 0m10.967s
user 0m0.228s user 0m0.222s
sys 0m9.497s sys 0m9.127s
real 0m11.633s real 0m11.286s
user 0m0.214s user 0m0.196s
sys 0m9.529s sys 0m9.134s
and averages for both:
real 11.54750 real 11.12450
Which is a 3.6% improvement in execution time. More improvement is
expected for loads with larger kernel data footprint (real workloads).
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Use idle_power4.S from ppc64 as we are not going to support
32 bit power4 in the merged tree.
Merge ppc64 traps.c into powerpc traps.c:
use ppc64 versions of exception routine names
(as they don't have StudlyCaps)
make all the versions if die() have the same
prototype
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On PPC 8xx, the DataTLBMiss handler does not jump directly to the page
fault handler, as was the case in v2.4.
It instead loads an invalid TLB which causes a subsequent DataTLBError
exception.
The comment on top of it haven't been update to reflect the change, though.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Marcelo Tosatti