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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: ldavies@oz.agile.tv
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Troubles with TLB refills
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:58:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010306135856.E1184@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AA45523.CDF351CB@agile.tv>; from ldavies@agile.tv on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:10:27PM +1000

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:10:27PM +1000, Liam Davies wrote:

> in terms of instruction encodings. I would have thought the cpu would have
> crapped out when it hit bad instructions. So it would seem the
> exceptions were occurring but the code that it was executing wasn't even code.
> Hence my assumption that we never got a TLB refill., even though the fault
> handler was being called.

Probably somewhere in the garbage there was another memory reference
which resulted in a second TLB exception, at that time a store to 0x10004f4c
which then got handled via the general exception handler and resulted in
do_page_fault being called.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-06 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-05  3:40 Troubles with TLB refills Liam Davies
2001-03-05 10:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-03-06  3:10   ` Liam Davies
2001-03-06 12:58     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-03-07  3:36       ` Problem makeing an O2 run bootp nick
2001-03-07  3:36         ` nick
2001-03-07 19:11         ` Rafal Boni
2001-03-07 19:14           ` nick
2001-03-08  7:57         ` Chris Ruvolo
2001-03-10 18:25           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-03-12  1:09             ` IP32 (O2) diff nick
2001-03-06  6:45   ` Troubles with TLB refills Liam Davies
2001-03-06  6:45     ` Liam Davies

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