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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-04-17 18:03:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-04-17 18:03:11 -0700
commitdadeafdfc8da8c27e5a68e0706b9856eaac89391 (patch)
tree17993d26e93e598a2f449063fe213afad2a45814 /include/asm-sparc64
parentfb65b9619b756793d824df7501c895a2c2871f40 (diff)
[PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushing
We were flushing the D-cache excessively for ptrace() processing and this makes debugging threads so slow as to be totally unusable. All process page accesses via ptrace() go via access_process_vm(). This routine, for each process page, uses get_user_pages(). That in turn does a flush_dcache_page() on the child pages before we copy in/out the ptrace request data. Therefore, all we need to do after the data movement is: 1) Flush the D-cache pages if the kernel maps the page to a different color than userspace does. 2) If we wrote to the page, we need to flush the I-cache on older cpus. Previously we just flushed the entire cache at the end of a ptrace() request, and that was beyond stupid. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-sparc64')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-sparc64/cacheflush.h22
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-sparc64/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-sparc64/cacheflush.h
index 86f02937ff1..51b26e81d82 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc64/cacheflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc64/cacheflush.h
@@ -49,16 +49,22 @@ extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page);
#define flush_icache_page(vma, pg) do { } while(0)
#define flush_icache_user_range(vma,pg,adr,len) do { } while (0)
-#define copy_to_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
- do { \
- flush_cache_page(vma, vaddr, page_to_pfn(page));\
- memcpy(dst, src, len); \
+extern void flush_ptrace_access(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *,
+ unsigned long uaddr, void *kaddr,
+ unsigned long len, int write);
+
+#define copy_to_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
+ do { \
+ flush_cache_page(vma, vaddr, page_to_pfn(page)); \
+ memcpy(dst, src, len); \
+ flush_ptrace_access(vma, page, vaddr, src, len, 0); \
} while (0)
-#define copy_from_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
- do { \
- flush_cache_page(vma, vaddr, page_to_pfn(page));\
- memcpy(dst, src, len); \
+#define copy_from_user_page(vma, page, vaddr, dst, src, len) \
+ do { \
+ flush_cache_page(vma, vaddr, page_to_pfn(page)); \
+ memcpy(dst, src, len); \
+ flush_ptrace_access(vma, page, vaddr, dst, len, 1); \
} while (0)
#define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping) do { } while (0)