[PATCH] powerpc/64s: use ibm,tlbiel-congruence-classes-(hash|radix) dt property

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 19:57:55 AEST 2017


On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:39:11 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 09:14 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > I think we were going to take another look at moving the setup code
> > later, but I think that might wait until 4.13.  
> 
> Except without that we won't boot a post-P9 CPU right ? So we'll end up
> having to chase distros to backport it :-( Oh well...

Okay, well what if we just move the TLB flushing to somewhere like
early_init_mmu(_secondary) for power CPUs first?

Non-local tlbie does not seem to have this requirement, so would it
make it more robust just to execute that once during boot with the
primary thread?


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