Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2008-09-04

[PATCH v2 2/4] powerpc: Fixes for CONFIG_PTE_64BIT for SMP support

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From: Kumar Gala <hidden>
Date: 2008-08-29 13:56:59
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds

There are some minor issues with support 64-bit PTEs on a 32-bit processor
when dealing with SMP.

* We need to order the stores in set_pte_at to make sure the flag word
  is set second.
* Change pte_clear to use pte_update so only the flag word is cleared

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
index 6fe39e3..db2e7bd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc32.h
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ extern unsigned long bad_call_to_PMD_PAGE_SIZE(void);
 
 #define pte_none(pte)		((pte_val(pte) & ~_PTE_NONE_MASK) == 0)
 #define pte_present(pte)	(pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_PRESENT)
-#define pte_clear(mm,addr,ptep)	do { set_pte_at((mm), (addr), (ptep), __pte(0)); } while (0)
+#define pte_clear(mm,addr,ptep)	do { pte_update(ptep, ~0, 0); } while (0)
 
 #define pmd_none(pmd)		(!pmd_val(pmd))
 #define	pmd_bad(pmd)		(pmd_val(pmd) & _PMD_BAD)
@@ -612,9 +612,6 @@ static inline unsigned long pte_update(pte_t *p,
 	return old;
 }
 #else /* CONFIG_PTE_64BIT */
-/* TODO: Change that to only modify the low word and move set_pte_at()
- * out of line
- */
 static inline unsigned long long pte_update(pte_t *p,
 					    unsigned long clr,
 					    unsigned long set)
@@ -658,8 +655,17 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 #if _PAGE_HASHPTE != 0
 	pte_update(ptep, ~_PAGE_HASHPTE, pte_val(pte) & ~_PAGE_HASHPTE);
 #else
+#if defined(CONFIG_PTE_64BIT) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+	__asm__ __volatile__("\
+		stw%U0%X0 %2,%0\n\
+		eieio\n\
+		stw%U0%X0 %L2,%1"
+	: "=m" (*ptep), "=m" (*((unsigned char *)ptep+4))
+	: "r" (pte) : "memory");
+#else
 	*ptep = pte;
 #endif
+#endif
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.5.5.1
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