[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Fix writing to spin table 'cpu-release-addr' on ppc64e

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Wed Mar 16 01:21:33 EST 2011


On Mar 5, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala at freescale.com>
> 
> If the spin table is located in the linear mapping (which can happen if
> we have 4G or more of memory) we need to access the spin table via a
> cacheable coherent mapping like we do on ppc32 (and do explicit cache
> flush).
> 
> See the following commit for the ppc32 version of this issue:
> 
> commit d1d47ec6e62ab08d2ebb925fd9203abfad3adfbf
> Author: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
> Date:   Fri Dec 18 16:50:37 2009 -0600
> 
>    powerpc/85xx: Fix SMP when "cpu-release-addr" is in lowmem
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/smp.c |    6 +++++-
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applied

- k



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