From b9af7c0d44b8bb71e3af5e94688d076414aa8c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Siddha Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:46:55 -0700 Subject: 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 LKML-Reference: <20091014220254.063193621@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S index 780cd928fcd5..b55ee4ff509f 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 -- cgit v1.2.1