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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: POWER5 erratum workaround
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:49:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040429014959.GA18309@zax> (raw)

Linus, please apply:

Early POWER5 revisions (<DD2.1) have a problem requiring slbie
instructions to be repeated under some circumstances.  The patch below
adds a workaround (patch made by Anton Blanchard).

Index: working-2.6/arch/ppc64/kernel/entry.S
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/arch/ppc64/kernel/entry.S	2004-04-20 11:04:31.000000000 +1000
+++ working-2.6/arch/ppc64/kernel/entry.S	2004-04-28 14:30:30.069407648 +1000
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@
 	beq	2f		/* if yes, don't slbie it */
 	oris	r6,r6,0x0800	/* set C (class) bit */
 	slbie	r6
+	slbie	r6		/* Workaround POWER5 < DD2.1 issue */
 2:
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_SLB)
 	clrrdi	r7,r8,THREAD_SHIFT	/* base of new stack */
Index: working-2.6/arch/ppc64/kernel/stab.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/arch/ppc64/kernel/stab.c	2004-03-12 10:35:23.000000000 +1100
+++ working-2.6/arch/ppc64/kernel/stab.c	2004-04-28 14:33:48.446331536 +1000
@@ -474,14 +474,14 @@
 void flush_slb(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	unsigned long offset = __get_cpu_var(stab_cache_ptr);
+	union {
+		unsigned long word0;
+		slb_dword0 data;
+	} esid_data;
+
 
 	if (offset <= NR_STAB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
 		int i;
-		union {
-			unsigned long word0;
-			slb_dword0 data;
-		} esid_data;
-
 		asm volatile("isync" : : : "memory");
 		for (i = 0; i < offset; i++) {
 			esid_data.word0 = 0;
@@ -493,6 +493,17 @@
 		asm volatile("isync; slbia; isync" : : : "memory");
 	}
 
+	/* Workaround POWER5 < DD2.1 issue */
+	if (offset == 1 || offset > NR_STAB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
+		/* 
+		 * flush segment in EEH region, we dont normally access
+		 * addresses in this region.
+		 */
+		esid_data.word0 = 0;
+		esid_data.data.esid = EEH_REGION_ID;
+		asm volatile("slbie %0" : : "r" (esid_data));
+	}
+
 	__get_cpu_var(stab_cache_ptr) = 0;
 
 	preload_slb(tsk, mm);


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