From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49FF9B70B2 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:33:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71D46DDD0B for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:33:14 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: 85xx Address space query From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: kernel mailz In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:33:01 +1000 Message-Id: <1245929581.22312.13.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 23:16 +0530, kernel mailz wrote: > But If the app was running with PID=1, interrupt occurs, kernel code > gets executed in PID=1, how does the kernel handle this ? and goes > back to PID=0, since its translations are all in PID=0 PID 0 is a special case in HW. TLB entries with TID=0 will match any PID value. Cheers, Ben.