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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h index 6e4589eee2da..65d589689f01 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h @@ -36,14 +36,16 @@ #include <asm/mmu.h> /* - * We only have to have statically allocated lppaca structs on - * legacy iSeries, which supports at most 64 cpus. - */ -#define NR_LPPACAS 1 - -/* - * The Hypervisor barfs if the lppaca crosses a page boundary. A 1k - * alignment is sufficient to prevent this + * The lppaca is the "virtual processor area" registered with the hypervisor, + * H_REGISTER_VPA etc. + * + * According to PAPR, the structure is 640 bytes long, must be L1 cache line + * aligned, and must not cross a 4kB boundary. Its size field must be at + * least 640 bytes (but may be more). + * + * Pre-v4.14 KVM hypervisors reject the VPA if its size field is smaller than + * 1kB, so we dynamically allocate 1kB and advertise size as 1kB, but keep + * this structure as the canonical 640 byte size. */ struct lppaca { /* cacheline 1 contains read-only data */ @@ -97,11 +99,9 @@ struct lppaca { __be32 page_ins; /* CMO Hint - # page ins by OS */ u8 reserved11[148]; - volatile __be64 dtl_idx; /* Dispatch Trace Log head index */ + volatile __be64 dtl_idx; /* Dispatch Trace Log head index */ u8 reserved12[96]; -} __attribute__((__aligned__(0x400))); - -extern struct lppaca lppaca[]; +} ____cacheline_aligned; #define lppaca_of(cpu) (*paca_ptrs[cpu]->lppaca_ptr) |