Re: [PATCH 15/15] Do not rely on the initial state of TC/VPE bindings when doing cross VPE writes

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

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:46:33PM -0700, Gandham, Raghu wrote:

> > From: Kevin D. Kissell [mailto:kevink@paralogos.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:02 PM
> > To: Gandham, Raghu
> > Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Dearman, Chris
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] Do not rely on the initial state of TC/VPE
> > bindings when doing cross VPE writes
> > 
> > Note that, regardless of the reset state, smtc_configure_tlb() should
> > have at least temporarily bound TC 1 to VPE1, which may be why this
> > never seemed to be a problem on the 34K.  If one wants to support
> > designs with more than 2 VPEs, then this is probably one of the things
> > that needs to be fixed.  That having been said, rather than adding a
> > usually-redundant write_vpe_c0_vpeconf0() in that clause, wouldn't it
> be
> > cleaner to just move the MVP setting from the top of the loop to the
> > point in the loop just after the TCs have been bound to the VPE in
> > question, i.e.,
> > 
> >  454                 if (slop) {
> >  455                         if (tc != 0) {
> >  456                                 smtc_tc_setup(vpe,tc, cpu);
> >  457                                 cpu++;
> >  458                         }
> >  459                         printk(" %d", tc);
> >  460                         tc++;
> >  461                         slop--;
> >  462                 }
> > 
> >                         write_vpe_c0_vpeconf0(read_vpe_c0_vpeconf0() |
> > VPECONF0_MVP);
> > 
> >  463                 if (vpe != 0) {
> >  464                         /*
> >  465                          * Clear any stale software interrupts
> from
> > VPE's Cause
> >  466                          */
> > 
> > This should definitely be OK for a 34K, because it's being executed by
> > TC0 in VPE0 and the reset state of VPE0 has MVP set.  If it weren't,
> > smtc_configure_tlb() would have failed.
> > 
> >           Regards,
> > 
> >           Kevin K.
> 
> 
> I will resend this patch with your suggestion.

Ping?  Don't think I ever received that, if you sent it.

  Ralf