On 12.02.2013, at 03:00, David Gibson wrote:

> Currently get_physical_address() first checks to see if translation is
> enabled in the MSR, then in the translation on case switches on the mmu
> type.  Except that for BookE MMUs, translation is always on, and so it
> has to switch in the "translation off" case as well and do the same thing
> as the translation on path for those MMUs.  Plus, even translation off
> doesn't behave exactly the same on the various MMU types so there are
> further mmu type checks in the "translation off" path.
> 
> As a first step to cleaning this up, this patch moves the switch on mmu
> type to the top level, then makes the translation on/off check just for
> those mmu types where it is meaningful.

Eventually the mmu translation should just be a class dispatched indirect 
function call. I don't think it's within the scope of this first round of 
cleanup though.


Alex


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