linux/arch/powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt e701d269aa [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix 4xx flush_tlb_page()
On 4xx CPUs, the current implementation of flush_tlb_page() uses
a low level _tlbie() assembly function that only works for the
current PID. Thus, invalidations caused by, for example, a COW
fault triggered by get_user_pages() from a different context will
not work properly, causing among other things, gdb breakpoints
to fail.

This patch adds a "pid" argument to _tlbie() on 4xx processors,
and uses it to flush entries in the right context. FSL BookE
also gets the argument but it seems they don't need it (their
tlbivax form ignores the PID when invalidating according to the
document I have).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-11-01 07:15:09 -05:00
..
boot [POWERPC] bootwrapper: Bail from script if any command fails 2007-11-01 07:11:11 -05:00
configs Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge 2007-10-23 22:20:51 +10:00
kernel [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix 4xx flush_tlb_page() 2007-11-01 07:15:09 -05:00
lib [POWERPC] rheap: Changes config mechanism 2007-10-16 17:09:21 -06:00
math-emu [POWERPC] Fix handling of stfiwx math emulation 2007-10-16 09:05:24 -05:00
mm [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix 4xx flush_tlb_page() 2007-11-01 07:15:09 -05:00
oprofile Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation 2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
platforms Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge 2007-10-23 22:20:51 +10:00
sysdev [POWERPC] bestcomm: Restrict bus prefetch bugfix to original mpc5200 silicon. 2007-10-21 10:52:02 -06:00
xmon [POWERPC] fix showing xmon help 2007-07-22 21:30:58 +10:00
.gitignore [POWERPC] Add files build to .gitignore 2006-12-04 20:41:29 +11:00
Kconfig Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation 2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [POWERPC] 4xx: Split early debug output and early boot console for 44x 2007-10-19 16:18:18 -05:00
Makefile kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP 2007-10-15 22:17:25 +02:00