powerpc/mm: Invalidate partition table cache on host proc tbl base update

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Aug 11 22:19:56 AEST 2017


On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 04:15:51 UTC, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
> The host process table base is stored in the partition table by calling
> the function native_register_process_table(). Currently this just sets
> the entry in memory and is missing a proceeding cache invalidation
> instruction. Any update to the partition table should be followed by a
> cache invalidation instruction specifying invalidation of the caching of
> any partition table entries (RIC = 2, PRS = 0).
> 
> We already have a function to update the partition table with the
> required cache invalidation instructions - mmu_partition_table_set_entry().
> Update the native_register_process_table() function to call
> mmu_partition_table_set_entry(), this ensures all appropriate
> invalidation will be performed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7cd2a8695ef9c31e8f51773f0de9e6

cheers


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