Commit 351336929c (kernel.org) rsp.
b3594a089f1c17ff919f8f78505c3f20e1f6f8ce (linux-mips.org):
> From: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:58:24 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] [MIPS] Allow setting of the cache attribute at run time.
>
> Slightly tacky, but there is a precedent in the sparc archirecture code.
introduces the variable _page_cachable_default, which defaults to zero and.
is used to create the prototype PTE for __kmap_atomic in
arch/mips/mm/init.c:kmap_init before initialization in
arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c:coherency_setup, so the default value of 0 will be
used as the CCA of kmap atomic pages which on many processors is not a
defined CCA value and may result in writes to kmap_atomic pages getting
corrupted. Debugged by Jon Fraser (jfraser@broadcom.com).
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The current implementation uses a sequence of a cacheflush and a copy.
This is racy in case of a multithreaded debuggee and renders GDB
virtually unusable.
Aside this fixes a performance hog rendering access to /proc/cmdline very
slow and resulting in a enough cache stalls for the 34K AP/SP programming
model to make the bare metal code on the non-Linux VPE miss RT deadlines.
The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
FIXADDR_TOP is used for HIGHMEM and for upper limit of vmalloc area on
32bit kernel. TX39XX and TX49XX have "reserved" segment in CKSEG3
area. 0xff000000-0xff3fffff on TX49XX and 0xff000000-0xfffeffff on
TX39XX are reserved (unmapped, uncached) therefore can not be used as
mapped area.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Ralf Baechle