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 pat

[PATCH stable v4.4 02/52] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2019-04-21 Thread Michael Ellerman
From: Nicholas Piggin commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream. 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 t

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 pat

[PATCH stable 4.14 v2 01/23] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-05-25 Thread Michael Ellerman
From: Nicholas Piggin commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream. 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 t

[PATCH stable 4.14 01/23] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-05-25 Thread Michael Ellerman
From: 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 polici

[PATCH v4.1 backport 09/15] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-03-01 Thread Michael Ellerman
From: Nicholas Piggin commit bfcd89a1d61a4a6bca3319e2ab70d7c745baf823 upstream. 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 t

Re: [PATCH v4.4 backport 3/3] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-02-22 Thread Nicholas Piggin
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:35:45 +1100 Michael Ellerman wrote: > From: Nicholas Piggin > > commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream. > > 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 b

[PATCH v4.4 backport 3/3] powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-02-22 Thread Michael Ellerman
From: Nicholas Piggin commit bdcb1aefc5b3f7d0f1dc8b02673602bca2ff7a4b upstream. 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 t

Re: powerpc/64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback

2018-01-28 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:58:18 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > 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 im

[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