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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2008-12-21	powerpc/mm: Rework context management for CPUs with no hash table	Benjamin Herrenschmidt
	This reworks the context management code used by 4xx,8xx and freescale BookE. It adds support for SMP by implementing a concept of stale context map to lazily flush the TLB on processors where a context may have been invalidated. This also contains the ground work for generalizing such lazy TLB flushing by just picking up a new PID and marking the old one stale. This will be implemented later. This is a first implementation that uses a global spinlock. Ideally, we should try to get at least the fast path (context ID already assigned) lockless or limited to a per context lock, but for now this will do. I tried to keep the UP case reasonably simple to avoid adding too much overhead to 8xx which does a lot of context stealing since it effectively has only 16 PIDs available. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-03	powerpc: Better setup of boot page TLB entry	Trent Piepho
	The initial TLB mapping for the kernel boot didn't set the memory coherent attribute, MAS2[M], in SMP mode. If this code supported booting a secondary processor, which it doesn't yet, but if it did, then when a secondary processor boots, it would probably signal the primary processor by setting a variable called something like __secondary_hold_acknowledge. However, due to the lack of the M bit, the primary processor would not snoop the transaction (even if a transaction were broadcast). If primary CPU's L1 D-cache had a copy, it would not be flushed and the CPU would never see the ack. Which would have resulted in the primary CPU spinning for a long time, perhaps a full second before it gives up, while it would have waited for the ack from the secondary CPU that it wouldn't have been able to see because of the stale cache. The value of MAS2 for the boot page TLB1 entry is a compile time constant, so there is no need to calculate it in powerpc assembly language. Also, from the MPC8572 manual section 6.12.5.3, "Bits that represent offsets within a page are ignored and should be cleared." Existing code didn't clear them, this code does. The same when the page of KERNELBASE is found; we don't need to use asm to mask the lower 12 bits off. In the code that computes the address to rfi from, don't hard code the offset to 24 bytes, but have the assembler figure that out for us. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-08-04	powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm	Stephen Rothwell
	from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>