[PATCH 00/11] powerpc8xx: Further optimisation of TLB handling

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Wed Dec 17 02:03:37 AEDT 2014


This patchset provides a further optimisation of TLB handling in the 8xx.
Main changes are based on:
- Using processor handling of PGD/PTE Validity bits instead of testing ourselves
the entries validity
- Aligning PGD address to allow direct bit manipulation
- Not saving registers like CR when not needed

It also adds support to any TASK_SIZE

Patchset:
01 - powerpc/8xx: remove remaining unnecessary code in FixupDAR
02 - powerpc/8xx: remove tests on PGDIR entry validity
03 - powerpc32: Use kmem_cache memory for PGDIR
04 - powerpc/8xx: Take benefit of aligned PGDIR
05 - powerpc/8xx: Optimise access to swapper_pg_dir
06 - powerpc/8xx: Remove duplicated code in set_context()
07 - powerpc/8xx: macro for handling CPU15 errata
08 - powerpc/8xx: Handle CR out of exception PROLOG/EPILOG
09 - powerpc/8xx: dont save CR in SCRATCH registers
10 - powerpc/8xx: Use SPRG2 instead of DAR for saving r3
11 - powerpc/8xx: Add support for TASK_SIZE greater than 0x80000000

All changes have been successfully tested on MPC885

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

---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h          |  8 +++----
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h       | 17 ++++++++-------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h       |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h    |  3 +++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S           |  3 ---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c             | 14 ++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)


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