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author | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-02-01 15:55:21 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-03-20 01:11:32 -0800 |
commit | 517af33237ecfc3c8a93b335365fa61e741ceca4 (patch) | |
tree | 58eff40eb4c517c4fd49fd347d38273ee1e1ee4b /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
parent | b0fd4e49aea8a460afab7bc67cd618e2d19291d4 (diff) |
[SPARC64]: Access TSB with physical addresses when possible.
This way we don't need to lock the TSB into the TLB.
The trick is that every TSB load/store is registered into
a special instruction patch section. The default uses
virtual addresses, and the patch instructions use physical
address load/stores.
We can't do this on all chips because only cheetah+ and later
have the physical variant of the atomic quad load.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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