[PATCH 1/3] powerpc/64s: POWER10 nest MMU does not require flush escalation workaround
From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-05-25 02:25:23
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
Per (non-public) Nest MMU Workbook, POWER10 and POWER9P NMMU does not cache PTEs in PWC, so does not require PWC flush to invalidate these translations. Skip the workaround on POWER10 and later. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c
index 7724af19ed7e..7e233829b453 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c@@ -755,10 +755,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix__local_flush_tlb_page); static bool mm_needs_flush_escalation(struct mm_struct *mm) { /* - * P9 nest MMU has issues with the page walk cache - * caching PTEs and not flushing them properly when - * RIC = 0 for a PID/LPID invalidate + * The P9 nest MMU has issues with the page walk cache caching PTEs + * and not flushing them when RIC = 0 for a PID/LPID invalidate. + * + * This may have been fixed in shipping firmware (by disabling PWC + * or preventing it from caching PTEs), but until that is confirmed, + * this workaround is required - escalate all RIC=0 IS=1/2/3 flushes + * to RIC=2. + * + * POWER10 (and P9P) does not have this problem. */ + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_31)) + return false; if (atomic_read(&mm->context.copros) > 0) return true; return false;
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