Subject: Re: [PATCH -V3 05/11] arch/powerpc: remove masking top 16 bit of va in tlb invalidate

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:22:08 +1000

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 09:56 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > That indicate we should not mask the top 16 bits. So remove the
> same.
> 
> Older versions of the architecture (2.02 and earler) require the
> masking, so we can't just unconditionally remove it, since that would
> potentially break POWER5 and PPC970.  People are definitely still
> running Linux bare-metal on PPC970s (though arguably not on POWER5). 

Are you sure ? I couldn't convince myself ... the old architectures say
that it only uses some of the bits but it doesn't mark the other ones as
"reserved" (as in must be 0).

(At least 1.x, I haven't looked at 2.x with x < 03)

Cheers,
Ben.