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From: Artem Alimarine <artem.alimarine@stromasys.com>
To: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Wierd code in Entry.S
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:11:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A55EC77.4040402@stromasys.com> (raw)

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Hi guys,

I am new to PARISC and to this forum. I have a small question. There is 
an instruction in entry.S that I do not understand. It is in the the 
macro make_insert_tlb

Kernel 2.6.26.2:

 537        /* Enforce uncacheable pages.
 538         * This should ONLY be use for MMIO on PA 2.0 machines.
 539         * Memory/DMA is cache coherent on all PA2.0 machines we 
support
 540         * (that means T-class is NOT supported) and the memory 
controllers
 541         * on most of those machines only handles cache transactions.
 542         */
 543        extrd,u,*=      \pte,_PAGE_NO_CACHE_BIT+32,1,%r0
 544        depi            1,12,1,\prot


The DEPI instruction on a 64-bit machine sets bit 44=32+12,
whereas we use the value as the argument to IDTLBT, which expects bit 12 
to be used instead. Does it mean that the U-bit is never set and the 
authorization id gets corrupted???

Is it a bug or my misunderstanding of the code???

Best regards,
Artem

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-09 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-09 13:11 Artem Alimarine [this message]
2009-07-09 22:55 ` Wierd code in Entry.S Grant Grundler
2009-07-10  0:15   ` John David Anglin
2009-07-10 15:36     ` Grant Grundler
2009-07-10 15:55       ` John David Anglin
2009-07-10 16:18         ` James Bottomley
2009-07-10 18:48           ` John David Anglin
2009-07-15  6:38           ` Grant Grundler
2009-07-15 12:41             ` James Bottomley
2009-07-15 15:00               ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-07-22  5:34               ` Grant Grundler
2009-07-10 16:11       ` Artem Alimarine
2009-07-15  6:40         ` Grant Grundler
2009-07-10 15:52     ` James Bottomley
2009-07-10 16:25       ` Artem Alimarine
2009-07-11  0:12       ` John David Anglin
2009-07-11  0:30         ` John David Anglin
2009-07-11  1:05           ` John David Anglin
2009-07-12 19:40             ` John David Anglin
2009-07-13  1:15               ` Kyle McMartin
2009-07-13  1:44                 ` John David Anglin
2009-07-13  1:54                   ` Kyle McMartin
2009-07-13  2:18                     ` John David Anglin
2009-07-10  7:31   ` Artem Alimarine

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