On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 15:30 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access
> user memory in a PMU interrupt routine on a 64-bit kernel. Such an
> access can cause a SLB miss interrupt and/or a MMU hash table miss
> interrupt.
>
> An SLB miss int
This provides a mechanism to allow the perf_counters code to access
user memory in a PMU interrupt routine on a 64-bit kernel. Such an
access can cause a SLB miss interrupt and/or a MMU hash table miss
interrupt.
An SLB miss interrupt on a user address will update the slb_cache and
slb_cache_ptr