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authorOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>2007-10-15 10:58:59 -0400
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-10-17 08:30:09 -0400
commitf66bce5e6aa1388289c04496c3fcae7bebf5f905 (patch)
tree7e788739a51947f1caff47f9b5226cad739e3805 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent8129535b6bcf40be62af2ae6b9234494f39725dd (diff)
[POWERPC] Add 1TB workaround for PA6T
PA6T has a bug where the slbie instruction does not honor the large segment bit. As a result, we have to always use slbia when switching context. We don't have to worry about changing the slbie's during fault processing, since they should never be replacing one VSID with another using the same ESID. I.e. there's no risk for inserting duplicate entries due to a failed slbie of the old entry. So as long as we clear it out on context switch we should be fine. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 0ec134034899..148a3547c9aa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_1T_SEGMENT)
408 std r7,SLBSHADOW_STACKVSID(r9) /* Save VSID */ 408 std r7,SLBSHADOW_STACKVSID(r9) /* Save VSID */
409 std r0,SLBSHADOW_STACKESID(r9) /* Save ESID */ 409 std r0,SLBSHADOW_STACKESID(r9) /* Save ESID */
410 410
411 /* No need to check for CPU_FTR_NO_SLBIE_B here, since when
412 * we have 1TB segments, the only CPUs known to have the errata
413 * only support less than 1TB of system memory and we'll never
414 * actually hit this code path.
415 */
416
411 slbie r6 417 slbie r6
412 slbie r6 /* Workaround POWER5 < DD2.1 issue */ 418 slbie r6 /* Workaround POWER5 < DD2.1 issue */
413 slbmte r7,r0 419 slbmte r7,r0