From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
benh@samba.org
Subject: Re: Page faults blowing up ... [was Re: [PATCH] Fix special PTE code for secondary hash bucket
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:31:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186194688.5733.6.camel@gruick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803193258.GA9613@austin.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:32 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:58:51PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > The code for mapping special 4k pages on kernels using a 64kB base
> > page size was missing the code for doing the RPN (real page number)
> > manipulation when inserting the hardware PTE in the secondary hash
> > bucket. It needs the same code as has already been added to the
> > code that inserts the HPTE in the primary hash bucket. This adds it.
>
> So what are the symptoms of hitting this? Does this affect only
> recent kernels, or old ones too?
Paulus stuff is likely to be unrelated to your bug. Also, whatever blurb
you pasted in this email is totally incomprehensible due to total lack
of context.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-04 2:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 8:58 [PATCH] Fix special PTE code for secondary hash bucket Paul Mackerras
2007-08-03 11:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-03 19:32 ` Page faults blowing up ... [was " Linas Vepstas
2007-08-03 21:54 ` Mike Strosaker
2007-08-04 2:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-08-06 19:19 ` Linas Vepstas
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