• David Gibson's avatar
    [PATCH] ppc64: bolted SLB entry for iSeries · d983cfb9
    David Gibson authored
    Tested, at least basically, on Power4 iSeries with shared processors, on
    Power4 pSeries and RS64 (non-SLB) iSeries machines.
    
    On pSeries SLB machines we "bolt" an SLB entry for the first segment of the
    vmalloc() area into the SLB, to reduce the SLB miss rate.  This caused
    problems, so was disabled, on iSeries because the bolted entry was not
    restored properly on shared processor switch.  This patch adds information
    about the bolted vmalloc segment to the lpar map, which should be restored
    on shared processor switch.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
    d983cfb9
head.S 53.6 KB