linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 18/19] powerpc/8xx: _PMD_PRESENT already set in level 1 entries

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Message-Id: <20140829091440.A2DD91ABD63@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:14:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>,
	scottwood@...escale.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 18/19] powerpc/8xx: _PMD_PRESENT already set in level 1 entries

When a PMD entry is valid, _PMD_PRESENT is set. Therefore, forcing that bit
during TLB loading is useless.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index 48d3de8..bb7c816 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
 	/* We have a pte table, so load the MI_TWC with the attributes
 	 * for this "segment."
 	 */
-	ori	r11,r11,1		/* Set valid bit */
 	MTSPR_CPU6(SPRN_MI_TWC, r11, r3)	/* Set segment attributes */
 	mfspr	r11, SPRN_SRR0	/* Get effective address of fault */
 	/* Extract level 2 index */
@@ -417,7 +416,6 @@ DataStoreTLBMiss:
 	rlwimi	r10, r11, 0, 0, 32 - PAGE_SHIFT - 1	/* Add level 2 base */
 	lwz	r10, 0(r10)	/* Get the pte */
 
-	ori	r11, r11, 1	/* Set valid bit in physical L2 page */
 	/* Insert the Guarded flag into the TWC from the Linux PTE.
 	 * It is bit 27 of both the Linux PTE and the TWC (at least
 	 * I got that right :-).  It will be better when we can put
-- 
1.7.1

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