[PATCH 12/17] powerpc/8xx: Remove PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES
Joakim Tjernlund
Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com
Fri May 4 23:16:47 AEST 2018
On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 14:34 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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> commit 1bc54c03117b9 ("powerpc: rework 4xx PTE access and TLB miss")
> introduced non atomic PTE updates and started the work of removing
> PTE updates in TLB miss handlers, but kept PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES for the
> 8xx with the following comment:
> /* Until my rework is finished, 8xx still needs atomic PTE updates */
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> commit fe11dc3f9628e ("powerpc/8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux
> mm expects") removed all PTE updates done in TLB miss handlers
Is that my 7 year old commit ?
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> Therefore, atomic PTE updates are not needed anymore for the 8xx
About time removing atomic updates then :)
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> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
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