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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2016-08-05 10:36:15 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2016-08-05 10:36:15 +0200
commit94558e265b9539b2ecec98d037bae51c902663c1 (patch)
treee2782bc903759c2a8bf0af9b3a8ec090a3b1bd3e /Documentation/x86/tlb.txt
parent5ac9056753e79ac5ad1ccc3c99b311688e46e8c9 (diff)
parent1cf915d305b6e1d57db6c35c208016f9747ba3c6 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued
Backmerge the 4.8 pull request state from Dave - conflicts were getting out of hand, and Chris has some patches which outright don't apply without everything merged together again. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ memory, it has two choices:
from areas other than the one we are trying to flush will be
destroyed and must be refilled later, at some cost.
2. Use the invlpg instruction to invalidate a single page at a
- time. This could potentialy cost many more instructions, but
+ time. This could potentially cost many more instructions, but
it is a much more precise operation, causing no collateral
damage to other TLB entries.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Which method to do depends on a few things:
work.
3. The size of the TLB. The larger the TLB, the more collateral
damage we do with a full flush. So, the larger the TLB, the
- more attrative an individual flush looks. Data and
+ more attractive an individual flush looks. Data and
instructions have separate TLBs, as do different page sizes.
4. The microarchitecture. The TLB has become a multi-level
cache on modern CPUs, and the global flushes have become more