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    MIPS: Mask out limit field when calculating wired entry count · 10313980
    Paul Burton authored
    Since MIPSr6 the Wired register is split into 2 fields, with the upper
    16 bits of the register indicating a limit on the value that the wired
    entry count in the bottom 16 bits of the register can take. This means
    that simply reading the wired register doesn't get us a valid TLB entry
    index any longer, and we instead need to retrieve only the lower 16 bits
    of the register. Introduce a new num_wired_entries() function which does
    this on MIPSr6 or higher and simply returns the value of the wired
    register on older architecture revisions, and make use of it when
    reading the number of wired entries.
    
    Since commit e710d666
    
     ("MIPS: tlb-r4k: If there are wired entries,
    don't use TLBINVF") we have been using a non-zero number of wired
    entries to determine whether we should avoid use of the tlbinvf
    instruction (which would invalidate wired entries) and instead loop over
    TLB entries in local_flush_tlb_all(). This loop begins with the number
    of wired entries, or before this patch some large bogus TLB index on
    MIPSr6 systems. Thus since the aforementioned commit some MIPSr6 systems
    with FTLBs have been prone to leaving stale address translations in the
    FTLB & crashing in various weird & wonderful ways when we later observe
    the wrong memory.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
    Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
    Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
    Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14557/
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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