[RFC/PATCH] powerpc: Rework I$/D$ coherency

2009-01-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch reworks the way we do I and D cache coherency on PowerPC. The old way was split in 3 different parts depending on the processor type: - Hash with per-page exec support (64-bit and = POWER4 only) does it at hashing time, by preventing exec on unclean pages and cleaning pages on exec

Re: [RFC/PATCH] powerpc: Rework I$/D$ coherency

2009-01-29 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Index: linux-work/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h === --- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h 2009-01-28 16:00:26.0 +1100 +++