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From: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MCA/INIT: need to wire CURRENT_STACK?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:12:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed5aea4305092111125edcf7d4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16451.1127265127@ocs3.ocs.com.au>

> BUT ... it raises the question of whether you will do anything
> in your MCA handler that will run into problems because the stack
> is perhaps[1] not pinned ... just mapped by a DTC entry.  I forget
> what the exact issue is that led to pinning the stack with DTR[2],
> but there is a correctness issue involved.  David: memory jog time??

Any virtually mapped memory that needs to be accessed with PSR.IC=0
needs to be pinned because otherwise you'd get a nested TLB fault and
things would go south from there real fast.

  --david
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21  1:12 MCA/INIT: need to wire CURRENT_STACK? Keith Owens
2005-09-21 17:47 ` Luck, Tony
2005-09-21 18:12 ` David Mosberger-Tang [this message]
2005-09-21 22:58 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-21 23:09 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2005-09-21 23:21 ` Keith Owens

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