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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 16:19 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Ok.  Lets use MMU_FTR_LOCK_BCAST_TLB_OPS and have a comment about  
> locking because bus implementations cant handle multiple ivax and/or  
> multiple syncs.
> 
Hi used MMU_FTR_LOCK_BCAST_INVAL :-) And I put a comment that says:

/* This indicates that the processor cannot handle multiple outstanding
 * broadcast tlbivax or tlbsync. This makes the code use a spinlock
 * around such invalidate forms.
 */

Cheers,
Ben.