[PATCH 04/10] 8xx: Always pin kernel instruction TLB

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 09/12/2009 09:56:35:
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:39 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > The later isn't as simple :) I believe the bulk of such code in
> > entry_32.S.
>
> Yeah but it would be useful for hash I suppose if one really wants to
> boot with nobats. Though at least on hash most of the time we have ways
> to recover by mean of MSR:RI being cleared, which your TLB miss code
> doesn't check...

Never looked at this so I cannot comment.

>
> > Anyhow, the config option is still valid as if enabled
> > it will pin several DTLB's too. Scott had some concerns about removing
> > the config option completely so this was the next best thing.
>
> Well, if you want to pin at least one entry, then just remove the #if
> completely but don't leave a #if 1 :-)

I could, but I wanted to have an easy way back to the old way if
the need arises.
Anyway, I am rather busy ATM with more pressing matters so I would
appreciate if you could take the patch as is.

 Jocke