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From: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, paulus@samba.org,
	anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLB shadow buffer
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:27:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060806012739.8CD2A679E7@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115481268674b0dc511.424238335.miltonm@bga.com>

> The SLB shadow buffer is a pure software construct recording the required 
> segment translations.  Registering a the shadow buffer informs the 
> hypervisor which entries are required when switching partitions, and may 
> allow it to recover the partition from a hardware error. 

What Milton said.  It's a high availability feature.

We can register volatile and persistent SLBs with PHYP.  PHYP will
invalidate volatile entries and replace persistent entries if it sees a
problem with them.  

Here I've only registered the 3 persistent (bolted) SLBs, as the
volatile SLBs can be handled with SLB faults in the kernel.

Mikey

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-06  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-05 21:18 [PATCH] SLB shadow buffer Milton Miller
2006-08-06  1:27 ` Michael Neuling [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-08  4:29 Michael Neuling
2006-08-08  1:15 Milton Miller
2006-08-08  4:21 ` Michael Neuling
2006-08-07  6:19 Michael Neuling
2006-08-05  5:56 Milton Miller
2006-08-07  5:55 ` Michael Neuling
2006-08-04  5:53 Michael Neuling
2006-08-05 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 11:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-09 13:01     ` Segher Boessenkool

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