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author | Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin <thlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-05-03 00:43:04 +0400 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2011-05-04 09:19:26 +0400 |
commit | 851d2e2fe8dbcbe3afcad6fc4569c881d8ad4ce9 (patch) | |
tree | 94082e7751a66236febed1cf18a1f01a02084ae9 /block | |
parent | a32e252f7cdfb3675a4e50215cfac356ed8952c4 (diff) | |
download | linux-851d2e2fe8dbcbe3afcad6fc4569c881d8ad4ce9.tar.xz |
powerpc: Add Initiate Coprocessor Store Word (icswx) support
Icswx is a PowerPC instruction to send data to a co-processor. On Book-S
processors the LPAR_ID and process ID (PID) of the owning process are
registered in the window context of the co-processor at initialization
time. When the icswx instruction is executed the L2 generates a cop-reg
transaction on PowerBus. The transaction has no address and the
processor does not perform an MMU access to authenticate the transaction.
The co-processor compares the LPAR_ID and the PID included in the
transaction and the LPAR_ID and PID held in the window context to
determine if the process is authorized to generate the transaction.
The OS needs to assign a 16-bit PID for the process. This cop-PID needs
to be updated during context switch. The cop-PID needs to be destroyed
when the context is destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin <thlin@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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