[PATCH] powerpc: rework 4xx PTE access and TLB miss
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 9 11:53:46 EST 2008
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 20:53 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:54:40 +1000
> "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > This is some preliminary work to improve TLB management on SW loaded
> > TLB powerpc platforms. This introduce support for non-atomic PTE
> > operations in pgtable-ppc32.h and removes write back to the PTE from
> > the TLB miss handlers. In addition, the DSI interrupt code no longer
> > tries to fixup write permission, this is left to generic code, and
> > _PAGE_HWWRITE is gone.
>
> Ok, this version booted for me and passed some very rudimentary
> regression tests.
Thanks for testing.
Cheers,
Ben.
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