[PATCH v2 00/19] powerpc/8xx: Optimise MMU TLB handling and add support of 16k pages

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Aug 29 19:13:24 EST 2014


This patchset:
1) provides several MMU TLB handling optimisation on MPC8xx.
2) adds support of 16k pages on MPC8xx.
All changes have been successfully tested on a custom board equipped with MPC885

The two differences with first version of the patch are:
1) I removed the patch number 10, which was implementing a 16 bit alignment of the
PGDIR. It is not worth potentially wasting up to 64k of memory just for removing one
instruction (ori).
2) I managed to preserve r11 while calculating the level 2 address, therefore
no more need to save r11 into CR.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                     |    2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-8xx.h       |    2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h |   21 ++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h       |    7 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h           |    3 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S           |  342 +++++++++++-------------
 6 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-)


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