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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@austin.ibm.com>
To: devel list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: get_pteptr mystery
Date: 18 Dec 2002 18:06:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040256384.30597.70.camel@granite.austin.ibm.com> (raw)


I need to mark the first kernel code page writeable because I need to
write to 0xc00000fc. Can someone tell me why the following code fails?
get_pteptr returns 0.

	addr = 0xc00000fc;
	if (0 != get_pteptr(&init_mm, addr, &ptep)) {
		/* mark it writable */
		*ptep = pte_mkwrite(*ptep);
		/* flush this page from hw TLB */
		flush_tlb_range(&init_mm, addr, addr+1);
	} else {
		printk(KERN_ERR "couldn't get PTE!\n");
	}

I've also tried using pgd_offset_k/pmd_offset/pte_offset by hand, but it
seems that the first time any error checking is done is in pte_offset,
and that fails. Specifically
	pmd_offset(pgd_offset_k(0xc00000fc)) = c0158000
but
	((pmd *)c0158000)->pmd = 0

My code runs at init time, after mm initialization but before init. Does
that mean I can't use init_mm...?

All I want is the pte pointer for 0xc00000fc. Advice welcome. :)

-Hollis
--
PowerPC Linux
IBM Linux Technology Center


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             reply	other threads:[~2002-12-19  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-19  0:06 Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2002-12-19  0:23 ` get_pteptr mystery Paul Mackerras
2002-12-19  0:41   ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-01-06 23:35 ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-01-07 23:05   ` David Gibson

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