History log of /arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-40x.h
Revision Date Author Comments
f32af63ed1327451cb91e3816fa043b6c2c52db1 22-Sep-2009 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> powerpc/mm: Fix 40x and 8xx vs. _PAGE_SPECIAL

The test to check whether we have _PAGE_SPECIAL defined is broken,
since we always define it, just not always to a meaninful value :-)

That broke 8xx and 40x under some circumstances.

This fixes it by adding _PAGE_SPECIAL for both of these since they
had a free PTE bit, and removing the condition around advertising
it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
ea3cc330ac0cd521ff07c7cd432a1848c19a7e92 18-Aug-2009 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> powerpc/mm: Cleanup handling of execute permission

This is an attempt at cleaning up a bit the way we handle execute
permission on powerpc. _PAGE_HWEXEC is gone, _PAGE_EXEC is now only
defined by CPUs that can do something with it, and the myriad of
#ifdef's in the I$/D$ coherency code is reduced to 2 cases that
hopefully should cover everything.

The logic on BookE is a little bit different than what it was though
not by much. Since now, _PAGE_EXEC will be set by the generic code
for executable pages, we need to filter out if they are unclean and
recover it. However, I don't expect the code to be more bloated than
it already was in that area due to that change.

I could boast that this brings proper enforcing of per-page execute
permissions to all BookE and 40x but in fact, we've had that now for
some time as a side effect of my previous rework in that area (and
I didn't even know it :-) We would only enable execute permission if
the page was cache clean and we would only cache clean it if we took
and exec fault. Since we now enforce that the later only work if
VM_EXEC is part of the VMA flags, we de-fact already enforce per-page
execute permissions... Unless I missed something

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
c605782b1c3f1c18a55dc1a75b19ed0288f61ac3 10-Mar-2009 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> powerpc/mm: Split the various pgtable-* headers based on MMU type

This patch moves the definition of the PTE format for each MMU type
to separate files instead of all in one file. This improves overall
maintainability and will make it easier to add new types.

On 64-bit, additionally, I've separated the headers relative to the
format of the page table tree (3 vs. 4 levels for 64K vs 4K pages)
from the headers specific to the PTE format for hash based processors,
this will make it easier to add support for Book3 "E" 64-bit
implementations.

There are still some type-related ifdef's in the generic headers,
we might remove them in the long run, but this patch shouldn't result
in any code change, -hopefully- just definitions being moved around.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>