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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2009-10-14 14:46:55 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-10-20 14:46:00 +0900
commitb9af7c0d44b8bb71e3af5e94688d076414aa8c87 (patch)
tree8f61c3cf73224a5c698da853b42b17579b824c0b /arch/x86
parentadc1938994f7f1112d335d998b5218b0aa680ad6 (diff)
x86-64: preserve large page mapping for 1st 2MB kernel txt with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
In the first 2MB, kernel text is co-located with kernel static page tables setup by head_64.S. CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA chops this 2MB large page mapping to small 4KB pages as we mark the kernel text as RO, leaving the static page tables as RW. With CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA disabled, OLTP run on NHM-EP shows 1% improvement with 2% reduction in system time and 1% improvement in iowait idle time. To recover this, move the kernel static page tables to .data section, so that we don't have to break the first 2MB of kernel text to small pages with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20091014220254.063193621@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_64.c6
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
index 780cd928fcd..b55ee4ff509 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
@@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ ENTRY(secondary_startup_64)
.quad x86_64_start_kernel
ENTRY(initial_gs)
.quad INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(irq_stack_union)
- __FINITDATA
ENTRY(stack_start)
.quad init_thread_union+THREAD_SIZE-8
.word 0
+ __FINITDATA
bad_address:
jmp bad_address
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ ENTRY(name)
i = i + 1 ; \
.endr
+ .data
/*
* This default setting generates an ident mapping at address 0x100000
* and a mapping for the kernel that precisely maps virtual address
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index c20d30b440d..7dafd4159ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ static int kernel_set_to_readonly;
void set_kernel_text_rw(void)
{
- unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_stext);
+ unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text);
unsigned long end = PFN_ALIGN(__start_rodata);
if (!kernel_set_to_readonly)
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ void set_kernel_text_rw(void)
void set_kernel_text_ro(void)
{
- unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_stext);
+ unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text);
unsigned long end = PFN_ALIGN(__start_rodata);
if (!kernel_set_to_readonly)
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ void set_kernel_text_ro(void)
void mark_rodata_ro(void)
{
- unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_stext), end = PFN_ALIGN(__end_rodata);
+ unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text), end = PFN_ALIGN(__end_rodata);
unsigned long rodata_start =
((unsigned long)__start_rodata + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;