linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Rex Feany <RFeany@mrv.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] 8xx: Misc fixes for buggy insn
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:33:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091106003305.GA15814@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257341920-29277-1-git-send-email-Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Here is the latest(last?) round of this series. I
> hope I got everything right now.
> Scott and Rex, please test and send ACK/NACK.
> 
>   Jocke
> 
> Joakim Tjernlund (8):
>   8xx: invalidate non present TLBs

This works, and is an important fix -- it should be applied even if the rest
of the patchset isn't ready.

>   8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects.
>   8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions.

Up through this point works.

>   8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions.

With this, the kernel hangs after "Mount-cache hash table entries: 512".

>   8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error.
>   8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU
>   8xx: start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines

Once I get up to this patch, it no longer hangs, but I get some user
processes consistently failing with EFAULT.

>   8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error.

No change after this patch.

-Scott

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-04 13:38 [PATCH 0/8] 8xx: Misc fixes for buggy insn Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38 ` [PATCH 1/8] 8xx: invalidate non present TLBs Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38   ` [PATCH 2/8] 8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38     ` [PATCH 3/8] 8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38       ` [PATCH 4/8] 8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38         ` [PATCH 5/8] 8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38           ` [PATCH 6/8] 8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38             ` [PATCH 7/8] 8xx: start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-04 13:38               ` [PATCH 8/8] 8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-06  0:33 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-11-06  8:01   ` [PATCH 0/8] 8xx: Misc fixes for buggy insn Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-06  9:29     ` Joakim Tjernlund
     [not found]       ` <20091109215321.GA4351@loki.buserror.net>
2009-11-09 23:00         ` Scott Wood
2009-11-10  8:27           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-10 16:36             ` Scott Wood
2009-11-10 16:55               ` Scott Wood
2009-11-10 19:08                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
     [not found]                   ` <4AF9CC99.1030500@freescale.com>
2009-11-10 21:25                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
     [not found]                       ` <4AF9DCE0.4030805@freescale.com>
2009-11-10 21:47                         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-10 22:02                           ` Scott Wood
2009-11-10 23:15                             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-10 23:21                               ` Scott Wood
2009-11-11  0:06                                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-11 15:26                                   ` Scott Wood
2009-11-12  9:10                                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-12 19:45                                       ` Scott Wood
2009-11-12 21:14                                         ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-12 21:57                                           ` Scott Wood
2009-11-12 23:29                                             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-13 19:25                                               ` Scott Wood
2009-11-14 14:11                                                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-11-10 19:54           ` Joakim Tjernlund
     [not found]             ` <4AF9C647.50600@freescale.com>
2009-11-10 21:05               ` Joakim Tjernlund

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20091106003305.GA15814@loki.buserror.net \
    --to=scottwood@freescale.com \
    --cc=Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se \
    --cc=RFeany@mrv.com \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).