From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc 8xx: Fixing issue with CONFIG_PIN_TLB
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:15:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378944911.4066.12.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378939017.12204.409.camel@snotra.buserror.net>
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 17:36 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> I wonder why we don't start from entry 31 so we can actually make use of
> that autodecrement. What will happen when we load the first normal TLB
> entry later on? I don't see any setting of SPRN_MD_CTR after this code,
> so won't it overwrite entry 30 (the middle 8M) in the CONFIG_PIN_TLB
> case?
>
> Ben, would patches like this be considered bugfixes as far as merging
> goes, or would they be for next given that it's something that's never
> really worked right and hasn't been touched in years?
Since they don't affect anything outside of 8xx, I'm happy to take them
until around -rc2 or 3. But it's your call really.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-12 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 16:44 [PATCH] powerpc 8xx: Fixing issue with CONFIG_PIN_TLB Christophe Leroy
2013-09-11 22:36 ` Scott Wood
2013-09-12 0:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-09-12 5:57 ` leroy christophe
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