Re: [PATCH 14/16] powerpc/mm: Runtime allocation of mmu context maps for nohash CPUs v2

[Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>]

> /*
>  * Initialize the context management stuff.
> @@ -326,13 +344,56 @@ void __init mmu_context_init(void)
> 	init_mm.context.active = NR_CPUS;
>
> 	/*
> +	 *   The MPC8xx has only 16 contexts.  We rotate through them on  
> each
> +	 * task switch.  A better way would be to keep track of tasks that
> +	 * own contexts, and implement an LRU usage.  That way very active
> +	 * tasks don't always have to pay the TLB reload overhead.  The
> +	 * kernel pages are mapped shared, so the kernel can run on behalf
> +	 * of any task that makes a kernel entry.  Shared does not mean they
> +	 * are not protected, just that the ASID comparison is not  
> performed.
> +	 *      -- Dan
> +	 *
> +	 * The IBM4xx has 256 contexts, so we can just rotate through these
> +	 * as a way of "switching" contexts.  If the TID of the TLB is zero,
> +	 * the PID/TID comparison is disabled, so we can use a TID of zero
> +	 * to represent all kernel pages as shared among all contexts.

can expand the comment of change it to say all other nonhash parts  
40x, 4xx, fsl-booke right now have 256 contexts.

>
> +	 * 	-- Dan
> +	 */
> +	if (mmu_has_feature(MMU_FTR_TYPE_8xx)) {
> +		first_context = 0;
> +		last_context = 15;
> +	} else {
> +		first_context = 1;
> +		last_context = 255;
> +	}