[PATCH 2/6] 8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects.

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 9 08:04:03 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 15:24 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

> +#define _PAGE_RW	0x0400	/* lsb PP bits, inverted in HW */
> +#define _PAGE_USER	0x0800	/* msb PP bits */
>  
> +	/* r10=(r10&~_PAGE_PRESENT)|((r10&_PAGE_ACCESSED)>>5) */
> +	rlwimi.	r10, r10, 27, 31, 31
> +	beq-	cr0, 2f /* Can be removed, costs a ITLB Err */

Did you mean

+ 	/* r10=(r10&~_PAGE_PRESENT)|((r10&_PAGE_ACCESSED)>>4) */
+	rlwimi.	r10, r10, 28, 30, 31
+	beq-	cr0, 2f /* Can be removed, costs a ITLB Err */

Which would still be incorrect. You want -both- to be set,
and your code will move on if -any- is set. Might want to add
a ~ of the whole thing maybe and invert the condition ?

I find it easier to just do li rX, requested_bits, and then, andc.
rscratch, rX, rPTE

> +#if 0 	/* Dont' bother with PP lsb, bit 21 for now */
> +	/* r10 = (r10 & ~0x0400) | ((r10 & _PAGE_EXEC) << 7) */
> +	rlwimi	r10, r10, 7, 21, 21 /* Set _PAGE_EXEC << 7 */
> +#endif

I don't get that one. Don't bother with _PAGE_EXEC, there's no
control of execute permission that works on 8xx. It's #if 0 anyway.

You still need to massage the PP bits into place. I don't see that
happening.

As it is, your PTE contains for bit 20 and 21, which translates to:

   PTE:                 Translates to PP bits:
RW: 0   USER: 0          00  supervisor RW (ok)
RW: 0   USER: 1          01  supervisor RW user RO (WRONG)
RW: 1   USER: 0          10  supervisor RW user RW (WRONG)
RW: 1   USER: 1          11  supervisor RO user RO (WRONG)

I would suggest you do the stuff I suggested initially with RW and USER
being an "index" into a pre-cooked immediate value with all the encodings
which also gives you the extended encoding for supervisor RO for free.

> +	/* Need to know if load/store -> force a TLB Error
> +	 * by copying ACCESSED to PRESENT.
> +	*/
> +	/* r10=(r10&~_PAGE_PRESENT)|((r10&_PAGE_ACCESSED)>>5) */
> +	rlwimi	r10, r10, 27, 31, 31

That doesn't sound right, just like ITLB... you need to AND those two
bits in a way or another, or basically test that they are both set
(or neither is set)

> +#if 0 /* Not yet */
> +	/* Honour kernel RO, User NA */
> +	andi.	r11, r10, _PAGE_USER | _PAGE_RW
> +	bne-	cr0, 5f
> +	ori	r10,r10, 0x200 /* Extended encoding, bit 22 */
>  #endif
> -	mfspr	r11, SPRN_MD_TWC	/* get the pte address again */
> -	stw	r10, 0(r11)
> +5:	xori	r10, r10, _PAGE_RW  /* invert RW bit */

Well, you are missing that xori from the ITLB miss I think. Also, that
changes the table above to:

   PTE:                 Translates to PP bits: 
RW: 0   USER: 0          10  supervisor RW user RW (WRONG)
RW: 0   USER: 1          11  supervisor RO user RO (ok)
RW: 1   USER: 0          00  supervisor RW (ok)
RW: 1   USER: 1          01  supervisor RW user RO (WRONG)

So it's still not right :-)

Cheers,
Ben.




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