[PATCH] powerpc: Invalidate ERAT on powersave wakeup for POWER9

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jun 23 20:22:47 AEST 2017


On 06/22/2017 10:56 PM, Michael Neuling wrote:
> On POWER9 the ERAT may be incorrect on wakeup from some stop states
> that lose state. This causes random segvs and illegal instructions
> when these stop states are enabled.
> 
> This patch invalidates the ERAT on wakeup on POWER9 to prevent this
> from causing a problem.

Cant there be any real genuine ERAT error on the wake up path
from these states ? Just being curious.



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