[PATCH] powerpc/8xx: fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite

[Rex Feany]

Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh at kernel.crashing.org):

> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 18:21 -0700, Rex Feany wrote:
> > > It's going to be hard for me to get that "right" since I don't really
> > > know what's going on with the core here, but I suppose if we get it
> > > moving along with extra tlb invalidations, that should be "good enough"
> > > until somebody who really knows what's going on comes up with possibly
> > > a better fix.
> > 
> > I've tried sticking tlbil_va() in those places, nothing seems to help.
> > In some cases userspace is slow, in other cases userspace is faster and
> > unstable: sometimes commands hang, sometimes I am able to ctrl-c and
> > and kill it, sometimes I get other strange crashes or falures (so far no
> > kernel oopses though).
> 
> And you are positive that with 2.6.31 and your other patch, it works
> both fast and stable ? This is strange... the code should be mostly
> identical. I'll have a second look and see if I can get you a patch that
> reproduce -exactly- the behaviour of 2.6.31 plus your patch.

The difference is night and day - with 2.6.31 I can boot into single
user mode, I can run our custom software (I left it running over night
with very simple test script - no crashes).

With the top of the tree I can sometimes boot into a shell, and if it
isn't crashing or hanging on boot it runs very slow (10+ seconds to do
anything, if I am lucky).

thanks!
/rex