From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:02 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x86: update reference for PAE tlb flushing X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1057^2~43 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5430f93257d336346a9018c915e879ce43f5f89;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git x86: update reference for PAE tlb flushing Remove bogus reference to "Pentium-II erratum A13" and point to the actual canonical source of information about what requirements x86 processors have for PAE pagetable updates. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h b/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h index 7641e7b..6c21ef9 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h +++ b/include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ static inline void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pudp, pmd_t *pmd) set_pud(pudp, __pud(__pa(pmd) | _PAGE_PRESENT)); /* - * Pentium-II erratum A13: in PAE mode we explicitly have to flush - * the TLB via cr3 if the top-level pgd is changed... + * According to Intel App note "TLBs, Paging-Structure Caches, + * and Their Invalidation", April 2007, document 317080-001, + * section 8.1: in PAE mode we explicitly have to flush the + * TLB via cr3 if the top-level pgd is changed... */ if (mm == current->active_mm) write_cr3(read_cr3()); diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h index ad71960..1d763ee 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h +++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h @@ -98,8 +98,10 @@ static inline void pud_clear(pud_t *pudp) set_pud(pudp, __pud(0)); /* - * Pentium-II erratum A13: in PAE mode we explicitly have to flush - * the TLB via cr3 if the top-level pgd is changed... + * According to Intel App note "TLBs, Paging-Structure Caches, + * and Their Invalidation", April 2007, document 317080-001, + * section 8.1: in PAE mode we explicitly have to flush the + * TLB via cr3 if the top-level pgd is changed... * * Make sure the pud entry we're updating is within the * current pgd to avoid unnecessary TLB flushes.