[PATCH 0/10] powerpc: Preliminary work to enable SMP BookE (v3)

[Kumar Gala]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> This series of patches is aimed at supporting SMP on non-hash
> based processors. It consists of a rework of the MMU context
> management and TLB management, clearly splitting hash32, hash64
> and nohash in both cases, adding SMP safe context handling and
> some basic SMP TLB management.
>
> There is room for improvements, such as implementing lazy TLB
> flushing on processors without invalidate-by-PID support HW,
> some better IPI mechanism, lock less fast path in the MMU context
> switch, etc... but it should basically work.
>
> This version addresses the issues raised about some of the patches
> in the previous batch, removes the ones that were already merged
> in -next and and rebases the remaining ones when needed.
>

All patches

Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>

Please put these in powerpc/next and I can work up some 85xx SMP  
support on top of them.

- k