linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 05/24] openrisc: head: refactor out tlb flush into it's own function

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:54:02 +0200
From:   Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>
To:     Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
Cc:     Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>, linux@...ck-us.net,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/24] openrisc: head: refactor out tlb flush into
 it's own function

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:48:10PM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> On 02/24/2017 11:54 AM, Stefan Kristiansson wrote:
> >eOn Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:57:19AM +0100, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> >>On 02/24/2017 05:32 AM, Stafford Horne wrote:
> >>>From: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>
> >>>
> >>>This brings it inline with the other setup oprations done like the cache
> >>>enables _ic_enable and _dc_enable.  Also, this is going to make it
> >>>easier to initialize additional cpu's when smp is introduced.
> >>This patch confuses me.  The TLB flush is moved to a point after MMU's are
> >>enabled.  The TLB flush should happen before enabling the MMU, shouldn't it?
> >>
> >It still happens before the MMUs are enabled, the patch only refactors the code
> >out into a function that is called from the place where it was open coded
> >before.
> 
> Right.  What's the point of moving it then?
> 

As the commit message mentions, it's a preparation patch for initialisation
of secondary cpus, which also will call this function.

Perhaps this patch should be bundled with those patches.

Stefan