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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2007-10-31 01:42:19 -0400
committerJosh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2007-11-01 08:15:30 -0400
commitb98ac05d5e460301fbea24cceed0f2a601c82e22 (patch)
tree2e556ad28a007d13339300fbbd4942d0ec9f023c /arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
parente701d269aa28996f3502780951fe1b12d5d66b49 (diff)
[POWERPC] 4xx: Deal with 44x virtually tagged icache
The 44x family has an interesting "feature" which is a virtually tagged instruction cache (yuck !). So far, we haven't dealt with it properly, which means we've been mostly lucky or people didn't report the problems, unless people have been running custom patches in their distro... This is an attempt at fixing it properly. I chose to do it by setting a global flag whenever we change a PTE that was previously marked executable, and flush the entire instruction cache upon return to user space when that happens. This is a bit heavy handed, but it's hard to do more fine grained flushes as the icbi instruction, on those processor, for some very strange reasons (since the cache is virtually mapped) still requires a valid TLB entry for reading in the target address space, which isn't something I want to deal with. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
index 0ed2c7eddc9e..8b642ab26d37 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
@@ -543,12 +543,21 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE)
543 addi r3,r3,L1_CACHE_BYTES 543 addi r3,r3,L1_CACHE_BYTES
544 bdnz 0b 544 bdnz 0b
545 sync 545 sync
546#ifndef CONFIG_44x
547 /* We don't flush the icache on 44x. Those have a virtual icache
548 * and we don't have access to the virtual address here (it's
549 * not the page vaddr but where it's mapped in user space). The
550 * flushing of the icache on these is handled elsewhere, when
551 * a change in the address space occurs, before returning to
552 * user space
553 */
546 mtctr r4 554 mtctr r4
5471: icbi 0,r6 5551: icbi 0,r6
548 addi r6,r6,L1_CACHE_BYTES 556 addi r6,r6,L1_CACHE_BYTES
549 bdnz 1b 557 bdnz 1b
550 sync 558 sync
551 isync 559 isync
560#endif /* CONFIG_44x */
552 blr 561 blr
553 562
554/* 563/*