On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 19:38 -0700, Rex Feany wrote:
> Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (b...@kernel.crashing.org):
>
> > Hrm. This is really strange...
>
> Is this a problem? in pte-8xx.h you added:
>
> +#define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x0008 /* SW entry, forced to 0 by the TLB miss */
>
> but there i
Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (b...@kernel.crashing.org):
> Hrm. This is really strange...
Is this a problem? in pte-8xx.h you added:
+#define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x0008 /* SW entry, forced to 0 by the TLB miss */
but there is already this:
#define _PAGE_EXEC 0x0008 /* software: i-cache
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 17:53 -0700, Rex Feany wrote:
> Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (b...@kernel.crashing.org):
>
> > Bernhard, Rex, please let me know if that works for you.
>
> it doesn't work for me, it crashes differently then before though!
Hrm. This is really strange...
> trunk+benh c
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 17:53 -0700, Rex Feany wrote:
> this is running on a MPC 875, and I'm happy to test any patches or
> add any debugging code if it helps.
Hrm... smells like something screwy in the 8xx PTE handling.
Let me have another look.
Cheers,
Ben.
Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (b...@kernel.crashing.org):
> Bernhard, Rex, please let me know if that works for you.
it doesn't work for me, it crashes differently then before though!
This patch worked for me:
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Weirich
> --- linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-com
Works perfectly here. Thank you for the patch, I was not feeling confident
enough to play around with the page bits :)
Bernhard WEIRICH
Software Development
Von: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [b...@kernel.crashing.org]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 06:12
