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From: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
To: "Tom Rini" <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Dan Malek" <dan@embeddededge.com>,
	"Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Improved copy_page() function, about 30% speed up for mpc860!
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 00:45:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <008201c2e2a8$1afc4a40$020120b0@jockeXP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030304233558.GA17093@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net


> Which change in particular are you talking about?
This, in head_8xx.S:
* Addendum: The EA of a data TLB error is _supposed_ to be stored
* in DAR, but it seems that this doesn't happen in some cases, such
* as when the error is due to a dcbi instruction to a page with a
* TLB that doesn't have the changed bit set. In such cases, there
* does not appear to be any way to recover the EA of the error
* since it is neither in DAR nor MD_EPN. As a workaround, the
* _PAGE_HWWRITE bit is set for all kernel data pages when the PTEs
* are initialized in mapin_ram(). This will avoid the problem,
* assuming we only use the dcbi instruction on kernel addresses.

from http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/200303/msg00022.html

> But I think as Dan
> has said, it's best to just accept this and move along. :)  It's known
> to be horribly broken in some cases, but not admited to by Motorola, and
> distinguishing between 8xx's at runtime is not trivial.

Regarding dcbz on user space yes, but not kernel space. I will do some more digging/testing and
maybe something could go into 2.5 eventally

 Jocke

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-04 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-02 17:50 Improved copy_page() function, about 30% speed up for mpc860! Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-03 21:18 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-03 23:16   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04  0:43     ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04  0:54       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-03-04  3:38         ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04  8:29           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 13:33             ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04 15:24               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 17:00                 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04 22:01                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 22:41                     ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04 23:20                       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04 23:35                     ` Tom Rini
2003-03-04 23:45                       ` Joakim Tjernlund [this message]
2003-03-05  0:05                         ` Tom Rini
2003-03-05  0:19                           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-05 17:12                             ` Tom Rini
2003-03-05 17:50                               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-05 17:15                       ` Dan Malek
     [not found]     ` <1046737789.885.15.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>
2003-03-04  0:51       ` Dan Malek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-27 13:08 Joakim Tjernlund
2003-02-27 15:45 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-02-28 17:31 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-03 21:28 ` Dan Malek
2003-03-04  0:09   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2003-03-04  0:19   ` Paul Mackerras

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