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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Rex Feany <RFeany@mrv.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8]  Fix 8xx MMU/TLB
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:00:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256601653.2076.51.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21C04675-E563-49E2-B2E6-7CAB9D8BE985@embeddedalley.com>

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 16:26 -0700, Dan Malek wrote:
> Just be careful the get_user() doesn't regenerate the same
> translation error you are trying to fix by being here......

It shouldn't since it will always come up with a proper DAR but
you may want to double check before hand that your instruction
address you are loading from is -not- your marker value for bad DAR.

> It is nice doing things in C code, but you have to be aware
> of the environment and the side effects when in this kind 

Yup.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-15  9:04 [PATCH 0/8] Fix 8xx MMU/TLB Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04 ` [PATCH 1/8] 8xx: invalidate non present TLBs Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04   ` [PATCH 2/8] 8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04     ` [PATCH 3/8] 8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04       ` [PATCH 4/8] 8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04         ` [PATCH 5/8] 8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04           ` [PATCH 6/8] 8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04             ` [PATCH 7/8] 8xx: start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15  9:04               ` [PATCH 8/8] 8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15 16:56 ` [PATCH 0/8] Fix 8xx MMU/TLB Rex Feany
2009-10-16  8:16   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-16 20:25     ` Rex Feany
2009-10-17 11:24       ` Joakim Tjernlund
     [not found]       ` <OF2BB5EF59.1EE0A77D-ONC1257652.003D79DC-C1257652.003EA687@LocalDomain>
2009-10-17 12:01         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-26 22:47           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-26 23:26             ` Dan Malek
2009-10-27  0:00               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-10-27  9:16                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-27 15:58                   ` Scott Wood
2009-10-27 16:38                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-30  0:12           ` Scott Wood
2009-10-30  0:51             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-30 17:16           ` Scott Wood
2009-10-30 17:37             ` Scott Wood
2009-10-31 10:31               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-03 13:32               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-03 16:59                 ` Scott Wood
2009-11-03 17:16                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-15 22:04 ` Scott Wood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-11 16:35 Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-14 17:23 ` Scott Wood
2009-10-14 18:46   ` Joakim Tjernlund

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