| commit | 1bc54c03117b90716e0dedd7abb2a20405de65df | |
| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | |
| Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:54:40 +0000 (8 15:54 +1000) | ||
| committer | Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | |
| Wed, 9 Jul 2008 17:36:17 +0000 (9 13:36 -0400) | ||
| tree | 8e82fd610abaff36f1e20b5aaaf7bdeaee883aac | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | beae4c03c0fe69cf7d57518aa0572ad21730b8be | commitdiff |
powerpc: rework 4xx PTE access and TLB miss
This is some preliminary work to improve TLB management on SW loaded
TLB powerpc platforms. This introduce support for non-atomic PTE
operations in pgtable-ppc32.h and removes write back to the PTE from
the TLB miss handlers. In addition, the DSI interrupt code no longer
tries to fixup write permission, this is left to generic code, and
_PAGE_HWWRITE is gone.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This is some preliminary work to improve TLB management on SW loaded
TLB powerpc platforms. This introduce support for non-atomic PTE
operations in pgtable-ppc32.h and removes write back to the PTE from
the TLB miss handlers. In addition, the DSI interrupt code no longer
tries to fixup write permission, this is left to generic code, and
_PAGE_HWWRITE is gone.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>