Disable highmem with SMP if no h/w TLB broadcasting

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 09:37:22PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > > We suffer an unfortunate combination of "features" which makes highmem
> > > support on platforms without hardware TLB maintainence broadcast difficult:
> > > 
> > > - we need kmap_high_get() support for DMA cache coherence
> > > - this requires kmap_high() to take a spinlock with IRQs disabled
> > > - kmap_high() occasionally calls flush_all_zero_pkmaps() to clear
> > >   out old mappings
> > 
> > Hmmm...  I guess there could be a way to work around this limitation by 
> > replacing flush_tlb_kernel_range() with something that would set a per 
> > CPU flag on all CPUs to schedule TLB flushing the next time they call 
> > kmap_high().
> 
> Until we have a solution that's acceptable to everyone, I suggest that
> the patch I attached is merged.

Yes, no issue about that.  I was just trying to think further.


Nicolas