arm64: mm: Don't wait for completion of TLB invalidation when page aging

When transitioning a PTE from young to old as part of page aging, we
can avoid waiting for the TLB invalidation to complete and therefore
drop the subsequent DSB instruction. Whilst this opens up a race with
page reclaim, where a PTE in active use via a stale, young TLB entry
does not update the underlying descriptor, the worst thing that happens
is that the page is reclaimed and then immediately faulted back in.

Given that we have a DSB in our context-switch path, the window for a
spurious reclaim is fairly limited and eliding the barrier claims to
boost NVMe/SSD accesses by over 10% on some platforms.

A similar optimisation was made for x86 in commit b13b1d2d8692 ("x86/mm:
In the PTE swapout page reclaim case clear the accessed bit instead of
flushing the TLB").

Signed-off-by: Alex Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashish Mhetre <amhetre@nvidia.com>
[will: rewrote patch]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 50b1ef8584c0..5bbb59c81920 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable-hwdef.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable-prot.h>
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
 /*
  * VMALLOC range.
@@ -685,6 +686,27 @@ static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(ptep);
 }
 
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_YOUNG_FLUSH
+static inline int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					 unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	int young = ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, address, ptep);
+
+	if (young) {
+		/*
+		 * We can elide the trailing DSB here since the worst that can
+		 * happen is that a CPU continues to use the young entry in its
+		 * TLB and we mistakenly reclaim the associated page. The
+		 * window for such an event is bounded by the next
+		 * context-switch, which provides a DSB to complete the TLB
+		 * invalidation.
+		 */
+		flush_tlb_page_nosync(vma, address);
+	}
+
+	return young;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG
 static inline int pmdp_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,