[PATCH 00/10 v6] Fix 8xx MMU/TLB

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 28 08:37:25 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 11:57 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Scott and Rex, I think we need you s-o-b to make it into the kernel proper.
> 
> Marcelo and Vitaly, I noticed you guys are listed as 8xx maintainers.
> Have you seen this? What do you think?

I think Marcelo isn't much involved with 8xx anymore. I'd say if Scott
and Vitaly are ok, then the patches are good. But I'll wait for at least
Scott to give an Ack as he can at least test which I can't :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

>         Jocke
> 
> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se> wrote on 20/11/2009 11:21:01:
> >
> > Yet again an iteration of the series.
> > Rex & Scott, please test and signoff.
> > Changes since last version:
> >  - Fix rlwimi insn(from Scott)
> >
> > Joakim Tjernlund (10):
> >   8xx: invalidate non present TLBs
> >   8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects.
> >   8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions.
> >   8xx: Always pin kernel instruction TLB
> >   8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions.
> >   8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error.
> >   8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU
> >   8xx: start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines
> >   8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error.
> >   8xx: DTLB Miss cleanup
> >
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h |   14 +-
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S     |  315 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S      |   18 --
> >  arch/powerpc/lib/copy_32.S         |   24 ---
> >  arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c            |    8 +-
> >  5 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
> >
> 
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