[PATCH -V3 09/11] arch/powerpc: Use 50 bits of VSID in slbmte

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jul 23 18:21:49 EST 2012


Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 06:43:39PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
>> Increase the number of valid VSID bits in slbmte instruction.
>> We will use the new bits when we increase valid VSID bits.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
>> index c355af6..c1fc81c 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
>> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ _GLOBAL(slb_allocate_user)
>>   */
>>  slb_finish_load:
>>  	ASM_VSID_SCRAMBLE(r10,r9,256M)
>> -	rldimi	r11,r10,SLB_VSID_SHIFT,16	/* combine VSID and flags */
>> +	rldimi	r11,r10,SLB_VSID_SHIFT,2	/* combine VSID and flags */
>
> You can't do that without either changing ASM_VSID_SCRAMBLE or masking
> the VSID it generates to 36 bits, since the logic in ASM_VSID_SCRAMBLE
> can leave non-zero bits in the high 28 bits of the result.  Similarly
> for the 1T case.
>

How about change ASM_VSID_SCRAMBLE to clear the high bits ? That would
also make it close to vsid_scramble()

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h
index d24d484..173bb34 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h
@@ -420,7 +420,8 @@ extern void slb_set_size(u16 size);
 	 * cases the answer is the low 36 bits of (r3 + ((r3+1) >> 36))*/\
 	addi	rx,rt,1;						\
 	srdi	rx,rx,VSID_BITS_##size;	/* extract 2^VSID_BITS bit */	\
-	add	rt,rt,rx
+	add	rt,rt,rx;						\
+	clrldi   rt,rt,(64 - VSID_BITS_##size);
 
 /* 4 bits per slice and we have one slice per 1TB */
 #if 0 /* We can't directly include pgtable.h hence this hack */



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