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Commit 74016852 authored by Scott Wood's avatar Scott Wood Committed by Kumar Gala
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[POWERPC] 8xx: Work around CPU15 erratum.



The CPU15 erratum on MPC8xx chips can cause incorrect code execution
under certain circumstances, where there is a conditional or indirect
branch in the last word of a page, with a target in the last cache line
of the next page.  This patch implements one of the suggested
workarounds, by forcing a TLB miss whenever execution crosses a page
boundary.  This is done by invalidating the pages before and after the
one being loaded into the TLB in the ITLB miss handler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 663edbd2
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