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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Kip Walker <kwalker@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: load_mmu for SMP systems
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 02:56:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030428025639.A20753@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EA97D54.6910D49E@broadcom.com>; from kwalker@broadcom.com on Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:24:20AM -0700

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:24:20AM -0700, Kip Walker wrote:

> In SMP systems, each CPU needs to set up "current_cpu_data.tlbsize". 
> Some CPUs do this initialization in cpu_probe, which is called both by
> init_arch and start_secondary.  However, some CPUs do this in their TLB
> setup code, which is called via load_mmu.  The SMP boot code doesn't
> currently call load_mmu() for the secondary CPUs.  Here's a simple fix
> for the 2.4 tree.

I instead changed cpu-probe to set tlbsize properly.  Nothing wrong with
your patch, it just fits better into my Grand Plan (TM) :-)

> TLB flush routines that have loops running up to tlbsize will lose if
> it's not set properly on all CPUs!

Yeah, they're going to be sort of slow.  There must be a reason for all
those GHz processors ;-)

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-28  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-25 18:24 [PATCH]: load_mmu for SMP systems Kip Walker
2003-04-25 18:28 ` Kip Walker
2003-04-28  0:56 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2003-04-28 14:43   ` Kip Walker

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