Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use dedicated RI/XI exceptions for MIPSR5 cores

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Hi David,

On 07/15/2014 07:50 PM, David Daney wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 06:09 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patchset adds support for unique RI/XI exceptions. This feature has
>> been added in MIPSr5. Using this feature, we reduce the time it takes
>> to deal with a TLB exception caused by the RI/XI bits since the TLB load
>> handler is skipped and we use the tlb_do_page_failt_0 path directly.
>>
>> This patch depends on the Hardware Page Table Walker (HTW) patchset
>> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2014-07/msg00195.html
> 
> They are unrelated features, why the dependency?
Because of the conflicts in cpu.h and cpu-features.h. I am just trying
to make Ralf' life easier when he tries to determine the order to apply
this patches.

-- 
markos


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