[PATCH v2] powerpc/powernv: Initialise nest mmu

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 17:32:13 AEDT 2016



On 05/12/16 12:59, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> From: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>
> 
> POWER9 contains an off core mmu called the nest mmu (NMMU). This is used
> by other hardware units on the chip to translate virtual addresses into
> real addresses. The unit attempting an address translation provides the
> majority of the context required for the translation request except for
> the base address of the partition table (ie. the PTCR) which needs to be
> programmed into the NMMU.
> 
> This patch adds a call to OPAL to set the PTCR for the nest mmu in
> opal_init().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>


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