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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-12-18 19:13:29 +0000 |
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committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-12-21 14:21:15 +1100 |
commit | 2ca8cf738907180e7fbda90f25f32b86feda609f (patch) | |
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powerpc/mm: Rework context management for CPUs with no hash table
This reworks the context management code used by 4xx,8xx and
freescale BookE. It adds support for SMP by implementing a
concept of stale context map to lazily flush the TLB on
processors where a context may have been invalidated. This
also contains the ground work for generalizing such lazy TLB
flushing by just picking up a new PID and marking the old one
stale. This will be implemented later.
This is a first implementation that uses a global spinlock.
Ideally, we should try to get at least the fast path (context ID
already assigned) lockless or limited to a per context lock,
but for now this will do.
I tried to keep the UP case reasonably simple to avoid adding
too much overhead to 8xx which does a lot of context stealing
since it effectively has only 16 PIDs available.
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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