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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin" <thlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add icswx support
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:01:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272405682.24542.43.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272405410.6329.16.camel@flin.austin.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:56 -0500, Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin wrote:

> icswx is a PowerPC co-processor instruction to send data to a 
> co-processor. On Book-S processors the LPAR_ID and process ID (PID) of 
> the owning process are registered in the window context of the
> co-processor at initial time. When the icswx instruction is executed,
> the L2 generates a cop-reg transaction on PowerBus. The transaction has
> no address and the processor does not perform an MMU access to 
> authenticate the transaction. The coprocessor compares the LPAR_ID and
> the PID included in the transaction and the LPAR_ID and PID held in the
> window context to determine if the process is authorized to generate the
> transaction.

Ok, good, then stick that in the cset comment of your next patch
submission after you've addresses all my other comments :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-23 22:04 [PATCH] add icswx support Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin
2010-04-24  0:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-27 21:56   ` Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin
2010-04-27 22:01     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-04-30 13:35     ` Michael Ellerman
2010-04-29 17:11 ` Mike Kravetz
2010-04-29 22:50   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-03  1:43 ` Olof Johansson

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