powerpc: Replaced tlbilx with tlbwe in the initialization code
On Freescale e6500 cores EPCR[DGTMI] controls whether guest supervisor state can execute TLB management instructions. If EPCR[DGTMI]=0 tlbwe and tlbilx are allowed to execute normally in the guest state. A hypervisor may choose to virtualize TLB1 and for this purpose it may use IPROT to protect the entries for being invalidated by the guest. However, because tlbwe and tlbilx execution in the guest state are sharing the same bit, it is not possible to have a scenario where tlbwe is allowed to be executed in guest state and tlbilx traps. When guest TLB management instructions are allowed to be executed in guest state the guest cannot use tlbilx to invalidate TLB1 guest entries. Linux is using tlbilx in the boot code to invalidate the temporary entries it creates when initializing the MMU. The patch is replacing the usage of tlbilx in initialization code with tlbwe with VALID bit cleared. Linux is also using tlbilx in other contexts (like huge pages or indirect entries) but removing the tlbilx from the initialization code offers the possibility to have scenarios under hypervisor which are not using huge pages or indirect entries. Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <Diana.Craciun@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
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