Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix hang accessing top of vmalloc space

2009-10-13 Thread Sachin Sant
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On pSeries, we always force the IO space to be mapped using 4K pages even with a 64K base page size to cope with some limitations in the HV interface to some devices. However, the SLB miss handler code to discriminate between vmalloc and ioremap space uses a CPU fea

[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix hang accessing top of vmalloc space

2009-10-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On pSeries, we always force the IO space to be mapped using 4K pages even with a 64K base page size to cope with some limitations in the HV interface to some devices. However, the SLB miss handler code to discriminate between vmalloc and ioremap space uses a CPU feature section such that the code