On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:21 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I think I've replaced _PAGE_EXEC with _PAGE_SPECIAL already
> > upstream since _PAGE_EXEC is unused on 8xx.
>
> What is page SPECIAL anyway?
It's used on newer kernels to indicates PTEs that map something that
isn't backed by a struc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote on 11/10/2009 23:26:27:
>
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:35 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > 8xx has not had WRITETHRU due to lack of bits in the pte.
> > After the recent rewrite of the 8xx TLB code, there are
> > two bits left. Use one of them to WRITETHRU.
> >
> > Per
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:35 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 8xx has not had WRITETHRU due to lack of bits in the pte.
> After the recent rewrite of the 8xx TLB code, there are
> two bits left. Use one of them to WRITETHRU.
>
> Perhaps use the last SW bit to PAGE_SPECIAL or PAGE_FILE?
_PAGE_FILE
8xx has not had WRITETHRU due to lack of bits in the pte.
After the recent rewrite of the 8xx TLB code, there are
two bits left. Use one of them to WRITETHRU.
Perhaps use the last SW bit to PAGE_SPECIAL or PAGE_FILE?
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-8xx.h |5 +++--
arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8x
