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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops while dumping user core.
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:23:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A75823.5050001@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202024064.7208.6.camel@pasglop>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:10 -0600, Rune Torgersen wrote:
>> Scott Wood wrote:
>>> Changing update_mmu_cache() to always call flush_dcache_icache_page()
>>> fixes it, though a better performing fix would probably be to add an
>>> exception table entry for the dcbst.
>> I can confirm that this seems to fix it.
> 
> Might be better to avoid the flush when the page isn't readable ?

Sure, that'd work.  I was trying to avoid a tablewalk to determine that, 
not noticing the pte argument staring me in the face. :-P

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 13:45 Kernel oops while duming user core Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 16:15 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-01-31 16:26   ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 17:40     ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 19:15       ` Kumar Gala
2008-01-31 19:18         ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 20:16       ` Scott Wood
2008-01-31 20:19         ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 20:38         ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 20:41         ` Nathan Lynch
2008-01-31 20:45           ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 20:55           ` Scott Wood
2008-01-31 21:58             ` Scott Wood
2008-01-31 22:10               ` Rune Torgersen
2008-02-03  7:34                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-04 18:23                   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-01-31 19:15     ` Kumar Gala
2008-01-31 19:23       ` Rune Torgersen
2008-01-31 19:54         ` Nathan Lynch
2008-02-01 17:38   ` Scott Wood
2008-02-02 12:05     ` Clemens Koller

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