[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/mpc85xx:Add iprot input arg in create_TLB0/1_entry

Prabhakar Kushwaha prabhakar at freescale.com
Wed Jun 5 05:20:38 CEST 2013


On 06/04/2013 10:07 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 06/04/2013 11:36:17 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On 06/04/2013 05:24:41 AM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
>>> create_tlb1_entry and create_tlb0_entry creates TLB entries with IPROT
>>> bit set by default. Any TLB entries with IPROT = 1 can not be 
>>> invalidated.
>>>
>>> Add IPROT as input argument for TLB entry creation APIs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar at freescale.com>
>>> ---
>>>  Based upon git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git branch master
>>
>> NACK as discussed in the thread where you suggested this.
>
> Sigh, didn't notice this was the external list, so I'll elaborate.  We 
> never want to create a non-IPROT entry, as we don't have a TLB miss 
> handler that will replace entries that have been invalidated.  This 
> will be especially important if we ever run U-Boot inside a virtual 
> machine.  And yes, this means that the current TLB0 usage should go 
> away as well. 

oh..

this means function like invalidate_tlb(1) should not be used u-boot?

Regards,
Prabhakar





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