The SmartMIPS ASE specifies how Read Inhibit (RI) and eXecute Inhibit
(XI) bits in the page tables work. The upper two bits of EntryLo{0,1}
are RI and XI when the feature is enabled in the PageGrain register.
SmartMIPS only covers 32-bit systems. Cavium Octeon+ extends this to
64-bit systems by continuing to place the RI and XI bits in the top of
EntryLo even when EntryLo is 64-bits wide.
Because we need to carry the RI and XI bits in the PTE, the layout of
the PTE is changed. There is a two instruction overhead in the TLB
refill hot path to get the EntryLo bits into the proper position.
Also the TLB load exception has to probe the TLB to check if RI or XI
caused the exception.
Also of note is that the layout of the PTE bits is done at compile and
runtime rather than statically. In the 32-bit case this allows for
the same number of PFN bits as before the patch as the _PAGE_HUGE is
not supported in 32-bit kernels (we have _PAGE_NO_EXEC and
_PAGE_NO_READ instead of _PAGE_READ and _PAGE_HUGE).
The patch is tested on Cavium Octeon+, but should also work on 32-bit
systems with the Smart-MIPS ASE.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/952/
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/956/
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/962/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The userspace runtime linker uses the elf_platform to find the libraries
optimized for the current CPU archecture variant. First we need to allow it
to be set to something other than NULL. Follow-on patches will set some
values for specific CPUs.
GLIBC already does the right thing. The kernel just needs to supply good
data.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/891/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Although the hardware supports a 4/8bit SD interface and the driver
unconditionally advertises all hardware caps to the MMC core, not all
datalines may actually be wired up. This patch introduces another
field to au1xmmc platform data allowing platforms to disable certain
advanced host controller features.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
To: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
CC: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/460/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
I believe these changes are needed on Alchemy SoCs in order to
use iomem above 4G with the usual platform_device machinery:
- Set CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT to make resource_size_t 64-bit.
- Increase IOMEM_RESOURCE_END so that platforms can register resources.
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/814/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle
Yoichi Yuasa
David Daney
Manuel Lauss
Florian Fainelli
pascal@pabr.org
Roel Kluin
Florian Fainelli
Wu Zhangjin