[PATCH 12/15] powerpc/book3e: Use way 3 for linear mapping bolted entry

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 18 22:43:56 EST 2011


On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:32 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> An erratum on A2 can lead to the bolted entry we insert for the linear
> mapping being evicted, to avoid that write the bolted entry to way 3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S |    5 +++--
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
> index 5c43063..e6c0926 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
> @@ -864,8 +864,9 @@ have_hes:
> 	 * that will have to be made dependent on whether we are running under
> 	 * a hypervisor I suppose.
> 	 */
> -	ori	r3,r3,MAS0_HES | MAS0_WQ_ALLWAYS
> -	mtspr	SPRN_MAS0,r3
> +	ori	r11,r3,MAS0_WQ_ALLWAYS
> +	oris	r11,r11,MAS0_ESEL(3)@h /* Use way 3: workaround A2 erratum 376 */
> +	mtspr	SPRN_MAS0,r11
> 	lis	r3,(MAS1_VALID | MAS1_IPROT)@h
> 	ori	r3,r3,BOOK3E_PAGESZ_1GB << MAS1_TSIZE_SHIFT
> 	mtspr	SPRN_MAS1,r3

Seems like this should have a MMU Feature bit or something for A2.

- k


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