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authorPatrick Williams <iawillia@us.ibm.com>2012-04-12 22:11:51 -0500
committerA. Patrick Williams III <iawillia@us.ibm.com>2012-04-18 16:21:11 -0500
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Optimize PageTableManager and associated VMM.
- Changed overall page table behavior to no longer use C bits in page table entries. Instead, individual blocks mark pages as dirty based on stores during page faults. Initially all writable pages are marked read-only until the first store to it. At that time the block gets an exception and changes the permission on the page table entry to writable and marks its own SPTE to dirty. - Greatly reduced the number of tlbie's and page table accesses. Accomplished this by: * Skipping many of the page table manipulations, such as LRU updates, when the PTE is invalid. * Converting most of the previously general-case of "Modifying a PTE" to specific cases such as "Resetting the Reference Bit" and "Modifying the SW field". - Fixed the LRU-flush algorithm so that it is O(n) instead of O(n^2), where n = size of page table. Change-Id: I2520fa88970fd7f656e6348bf6b34d5db82fd3db Reviewed-on: http://gfw160.austin.ibm.com:8080/gerrit/892 Tested-by: Jenkins Server Reviewed-by: Douglas R. Gilbert <dgilbert@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel M. Crowell <dcrowell@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: A. Patrick Williams III <iawillia@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/kernel/basesegment.H')
-rw-r--r--src/include/kernel/basesegment.H9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/kernel/basesegment.H b/src/include/kernel/basesegment.H
index 51e99b0bf..293b24f1c 100644
--- a/src/include/kernel/basesegment.H
+++ b/src/include/kernel/basesegment.H
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ class BaseSegment : public Segment
*
* Calls block chain to deal with page fault.
*/
- virtual bool handlePageFault(task_t* i_task, uint64_t i_addr);
+ virtual bool handlePageFault(task_t* i_task, uint64_t i_addr,
+ bool i_store);
/**
* @brief Implementation of the pure-virtual function from Segment.
@@ -108,8 +109,8 @@ class BaseSegment : public Segment
/**
* @brief Sets the page permissions for a given virtual address and size.
- * @param i_va[in] - virtual address of the page(s) to set permissions
- * @param i_size[in] - range of memory that needs permissions updated...
+ * @param i_va[in] - virtual address of the page(s) to set permissions
+ * @param i_size[in] - range of memory that needs permissions updated...
* if i_size equals 0 then we only need to update an
* individual page.
* @param i_access_type[in] - type of permission to set
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ class BaseSegment : public Segment
/**
* @brief Sets the page permissions for a given virtual address and size.
* @param i_va[in] - virtual address of the page(s) to set permissions
- * @param i_size[in] - range of memory that needs permissions updated...
+ * @param i_size[in] - range of memory that needs permissions updated...
* if i_size equals 0 then we only need to update an individual
* page.
* @param i_access_type[in] - type of permission to set
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