On Fri, 2018-12-14 at 10:58 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> They should be atomic for MTTCG. Note: a real POWER9 core doesn't actually
> implement atomic PTE updates, it always fault for SW to handle it. Only
> the nest MMU (used by some accelerator devices and GPUs) implements
> those HW up
They should be atomic for MTTCG. Note: a real POWER9 core doesn't actually
implement atomic PTE updates, it always fault for SW to handle it. Only
the nest MMU (used by some accelerator devices and GPUs) implements
those HW updates.
However, the architecture does allow the core to do it, and doing