From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3vSqcP4X1BzDqHy for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:03:17 +1100 (AEDT) Message-ID: <1487750581.23576.217.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Add translation mode information in /proc/cpuinfo From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Michael Ellerman , paulus@samba.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:03:01 +1100 In-Reply-To: <8ec533a5-daf6-4644-ffea-e940fe3e77f9@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1487499469-15284-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <874lzmn5h1.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> <8ec533a5-daf6-4644-ffea-e940fe3e77f9@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 11:19 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > I avoided using MMU, because it will confuse hardware guys. Why would it ? I don't see how anybody would be confused. And they aren't the primary consumers of /proc/cpuinfo anyway. I agree with Michal here. > Radix is not  > clearly the full definition of > Memory management unit, but rather the translation mode used by memory  > management unit. But > i don't have strong opinion on this. Who cares ? People understand :-) If you want call it "MMU Mode: if you think it's cleared but I don't like too much having a space on the left in case of stupid parsers... > Do you want me to send an updated patch ? or you can update it when you  > apply it to your tree ? > > -aneesh