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powerpc/mm: Add SMP support to no-hash TLB handling

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This commit moves the whole no-hash TLB handling out of line into a
new tlb_nohash.c file, and implements some basic SMP support using
IPIs and/or broadcast tlbivax instructions.

Note that I'm using local invalidations for D->I cache coherency.

At worst, if another processor is trying to execute the same and
has the old entry in its TLB, it will just take a fault and re-do
the TLB flush locally (it won't re-do the cache flush in any case).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-18 19:13:38 +00:00
committed by Paul Mackerras
parent 7c03d653cd
commit f048aace29
10 changed files with 281 additions and 57 deletions
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@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
* we invalidate the TLB here, thus avoiding dcbst
* misbehaviour.
*/
_tlbie(address, 0 /* 8xx doesn't care about PID */);
_tlbil_va(address, 0 /* 8xx doesn't care about PID */);
#endif
/* The _PAGE_USER test should really be _PAGE_EXEC, but
* older glibc versions execute some code from no-exec