[PATCH 3/4] 8xx: Don't touch ACCESSED when no SWAP.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 17 08:20:52 EST 2010
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:29 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Only the swap function cares about the ACCESSED bit in
> the pte. Do not waste cycles updateting ACCESSED when swap
> is not compiled into the kernel.
> ---
Your changeset comment is a bit misleading since the code isn't actually
updating ACCESSED... it's testing if ACCESSED is set and goes to the
higher level fault if not (which might then update ACCESSED).
Cheers,
Ben.
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 6 ++++--
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> index 84ca1d9..6478a96 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> @@ -343,10 +343,11 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
> mfspr r11, SPRN_MD_TWC /* ....and get the pte address */
> lwz r10, 0(r11) /* Get the pte */
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> andi. r11, r10, _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_PRESENT
> cmpwi cr0, r11, _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_PRESENT
> bne- cr0, 2f
> -
> +#endif
> /* The Linux PTE won't go exactly into the MMU TLB.
> * Software indicator bits 21 and 28 must be clear.
> * Software indicator bits 24, 25, 26, and 27 must be
> @@ -439,10 +440,11 @@ DataStoreTLBMiss:
> * r11 = ((r10 & PRESENT) & ((r10 & ACCESSED) >> 5));
> * r10 = (r10 & ~PRESENT) | r11;
> */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
> rlwinm r11, r10, 32-5, _PAGE_PRESENT
> and r11, r11, r10
> rlwimi r10, r11, 0, _PAGE_PRESENT
> -
> +#endif
> /* Honour kernel RO, User NA */
> /* 0x200 == Extended encoding, bit 22 */
> rlwimi r10, r10, 32-2, 0x200 /* Copy USER to bit 22, 0x200 */
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