linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] powperc/mm: read TLB Block Invalidate Characteristics

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Date:   Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:05:25 +1000 (AEST)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        paulus@...ba.org, aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com, npiggin@...il.com,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] powperc/mm: read TLB Block Invalidate Characteristics

On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 13:05:22 UTC, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> The PAPR document specifies the TLB Block Invalidate Characteristics which
> tells for each pair of segment base page size, actual page size, the size
> of the block the hcall H_BLOCK_REMOVE supports.
> 
> These characteristics are loaded at boot time in a new table hblkr_size.
> The table is separate from the mmu_psize_def because this is specific to
> the pseries platform.
> 
> A new init function, pseries_lpar_read_hblkrm_characteristics() is added to
> read the characteristics. It is called from pSeries_setup_arch().
> 
> Fixes: ba2dd8a26baa ("powerpc/pseries/mm: call H_BLOCK_REMOVE")
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>

Series applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1211ee61b4a8e60d6dc77211cdcf01906915bfba

cheers