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[PARISC] Always spinlock tlb flush operations to ensure preempt safety
authorMatthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:44:14 +0000 (16:44 -0500)
committerKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:44:14 +0000 (16:44 -0500)
Since taking a spinlock disables preempt, and we need to spinlock tlb flush
on SMP for N class, we might as well just spinlock on uniprocessor machines
too.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
include/asm-parisc/tlbflush.h

index e97aa8d1eff5f99bf84596d64602e252c356ff71..c9ec39c6fc6cf8b098f41058b4ab456f803ee80f 100644 (file)
  * N class systems, only one PxTLB inter processor broadcast can be
  * active at any one time on the Merced bus.  This tlb purge
  * synchronisation is fairly lightweight and harmless so we activate
- * it on all SMP systems not just the N class. */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ * it on all SMP systems not just the N class.  We also need to have
+ * preemption disabled on uniprocessor machines, and spin_lock does that
+ * nicely.
+ */
 extern spinlock_t pa_tlb_lock;
 
 #define purge_tlb_start(x) spin_lock(&pa_tlb_lock)
 #define purge_tlb_end(x) spin_unlock(&pa_tlb_lock)
 
-#else
-
-#define purge_tlb_start(x) do { } while(0)
-#define purge_tlb_end(x) do { } while (0)
-
-#endif
-
-
 extern void flush_tlb_all(void);
 
 /*
@@ -88,7 +82,6 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
        if (npages >= 512)  /* 2MB of space: arbitrary, should be tuned */
                flush_tlb_all();
        else {
-               preempt_disable();
                mtsp(vma->vm_mm->context,1);
                purge_tlb_start();
                if (split_tlb) {
@@ -102,7 +95,6 @@ static inline void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                                pdtlb(start);
                                start += PAGE_SIZE;
                        }
-               preempt_enable();
                }
                purge_tlb_end();
        }