Patch "powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

2019-04-29 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powe

Patch "powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

2018-05-27 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powe

[PATCH] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-01-17 Thread Nicholas Piggin
The fallback RFI flush is used when firmware does not provide a way to flush the cache. It's a "displacement flush" that evicts useful data by displacing it with an uninteresting buffer. The flush has to take care to work with implementation specific cache replacment policies, so the recipe has be