[PATCH 1/3] powerpc/64s: POWER10 nest MMU does not require flush escalation workaround

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed May 25 12:23:56 AEST 2022


Per (non-public) Nest MMU Workbook, POWER10 and POWER9P NMMU does not
cache PTEs in PWC, so does not require PWC flush to invalidate these
translations.

Skip the workaround on POWER10 and later.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c
index 7724af19ed7e..7e233829b453 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c
@@ -755,10 +755,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix__local_flush_tlb_page);
 static bool mm_needs_flush_escalation(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	/*
-	 * P9 nest MMU has issues with the page walk cache
-	 * caching PTEs and not flushing them properly when
-	 * RIC = 0 for a PID/LPID invalidate
+	 * The P9 nest MMU has issues with the page walk cache caching PTEs
+	 * and not flushing them when RIC = 0 for a PID/LPID invalidate.
+	 *
+	 * This may have been fixed in shipping firmware (by disabling PWC
+	 * or preventing it from caching PTEs), but until that is confirmed,
+	 * this workaround is required - escalate all RIC=0 IS=1/2/3 flushes
+	 * to RIC=2.
+	 *
+	 * POWER10 (and P9P) does not have this problem.
 	 */
+	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31))
+		return false;
 	if (atomic_read(&mm->context.copros) > 0)
 		return true;
 	return false;
-- 
2.35.1



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