[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Use tlbiel for 4KB pages
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 18 16:33:50 EST 2013
On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 13:33 +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The firmware should have supplied correct information for the kernel
> to figure out the page size array, which is traced by mmu_psize_defs[].
> Otherwise, the kernel will fail back to use solely 4KB page size
> and copy mmu_psize_defaults_old[] over to mmu_psize_defs[]. However,
> the "tlbiel" isn't enabled in mmu_psize_defaults_old[].
Did you actually find a problem here ? There is a reason we don't enable
tlbiel in there ... those old CPUs do not support it.
Ben.
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> index 2d4a20c..8675ae5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static struct mmu_psize_def mmu_psize_defaults_old[] = {
> .sllp = 0,
> .penc = 0,
> .avpnm = 0,
> - .tlbiel = 0,
> + .tlbiel = 1,
> },
> };
>
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