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authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2007-10-16 00:58:59 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-10-17 22:30:09 +1000
commitf66bce5e6aa1388289c04496c3fcae7bebf5f905 (patch)
tree7e788739a51947f1caff47f9b5226cad739e3805 /arch/powerpc/mm
parent8129535b6bcf40be62af2ae6b9234494f39725dd (diff)
downloadlinux-f66bce5e6aa1388289c04496c3fcae7bebf5f905.tar.bz2
[POWERPC] Add 1TB workaround for PA6T
PA6T has a bug where the slbie instruction does not honor the large segment bit. As a result, we have to always use slbia when switching context. We don't have to worry about changing the slbie's during fault processing, since they should never be replacing one VSID with another using the same ESID. I.e. there's no risk for inserting duplicate entries due to a failed slbie of the old entry. So as long as we clear it out on context switch we should be fine. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index 09da90b53850..c78dc912411f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ static int __init htab_dt_scan_seg_sizes(unsigned long node,
return 1;
}
}
+ cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features &= ~CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index 6c164cec9d2c..bbd2c512ee05 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ void switch_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
unsigned long stack = KSTK_ESP(tsk);
unsigned long unmapped_base;
- if (offset <= SLB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
+ if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B) &&
+ offset <= SLB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
int i;
asm volatile("isync" : : : "memory");
for (i = 0; i < offset; i++) {