Re: replacing synthesized tlb handlers with older ones

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:13:11PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> The TLB refill handler behavior for 1 CPU is fundamentally
> different than for SMP.  In the uniprocessor case, the page
> table origin is implicit, whereas in SMP it needs to be indexed
> by some per-CPU value, typically maintained in the Context
> register.  Pre-synthesed kernels set up up so that the Context
> value would be shifted left 23 bits, then right by 2 bits, to generate
> an offset.  The newer system eliminates the right shift by ensuring
> that the CPU index is stored in a pre-scaled form, and that bits
> 23 and 24 are zero.  So you can't just drop the old code into
> the newer kernel, unless you also change the setup of Context.
> A single CPU would work, because 0 == 0, otherwise...
> Try nuking those right shifts.

And beyond that, the old ones hardly made any reasonable attempt at
getting TLB hazard handling right, so depending on hardware they will
blow up.

  Ralf