Re: [PATCH 0/9] powerpc: Preliminary work to enable SMP BookE

2008-12-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 07:17 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > > There are some semingly unrelated patches in the pile as they > > are dependencies of the main ones so I'm including them in. > > You'll be happy to know these patches at least boot on real 85xx SMP HW. Ah excellent ! Now time for you to

Re: [PATCH 0/9] powerpc: Preliminary work to enable SMP BookE

2008-12-09 Thread Kumar Gala
On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: This series of patches is aimed at supporting SMP on non-hash based processors. It consists of a rework of the MMU context management and TLB management, clearly splitting hash32, hash64 and nohash in both cases, adding SMP safe context

[PATCH 0/9] powerpc: Preliminary work to enable SMP BookE

2008-12-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This series of patches is aimed at supporting SMP on non-hash based processors. It consists of a rework of the MMU context management and TLB management, clearly splitting hash32, hash64 and nohash in both cases, adding SMP safe context handling and some basic SMP TLB management. There is room for