[PATCH] Use cache-inhibited large page bit from firmware

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Oct 3 14:41:15 EST 2007


Discussions with firmware architects have confirmed that the bit in
the ibm,pa-features property that indicates support for
cache-inhibited large (>= 64kB) page mappings does in fact mean that
the hypervisor allows 64kB mappings to I/O devices.

Thus we can now enable the code that tests that bit and sets our
CPU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE feature bit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 172dcc3..9f329a8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -531,10 +531,7 @@ static struct ibm_pa_feature {
 	{CPU_FTR_CTRL, 0,		0, 3, 0},
 	{CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE, 0,		0, 6, 0},
 	{CPU_FTR_NODSISRALIGN, 0,	1, 1, 1},
-#if 0
-	/* put this back once we know how to test if firmware does 64k IO */
 	{CPU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE, 0,	1, 2, 0},
-#endif
 	{CPU_FTR_REAL_LE, PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE, 5, 0, 0},
 };
 



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