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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: tao@acc.umu.se (David Weinehall)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
	torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
	ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman),
	andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli),
	dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse),
	zlatko@iskon.hr (Zlatko Calusic),
	riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subtle MM bug
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:24:20 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14GVXT-0001Js-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010111005657.B2243@khan.acc.umu.se> from "David Weinehall" at Jan 11, 2001 12:56:57 AM

> > The MMU on these systems is a CAM, and the mmu table is thus backwards to
> > convention. (It also means you can notionally map two physical addresses to
> > one virtual but thats undefined in the implementation ;))
> 
> Are there any other (not yet supported) platforms with similar (or other
> unrelated, but hard to support because of the current architecture of
> the kernel) problems?

I believe its uniquely deranged. There are people who have asked for reverse
tables for other purposes (eg cache flush handling) but their mmu is the normal
way around.

Alan

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-11  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-08  5:29 Subtle MM bug Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08  5:42 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08  6:04   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 17:44     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 18:02       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 17:16 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-08 17:58   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 23:41     ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09  2:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09  6:20       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-09  7:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 11:38           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-09 12:29           ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09 18:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 19:09               ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-09 19:29                 ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-10 17:32                   ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-10 19:31                     ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 19:33                       ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-10 19:40                         ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 19:43                           ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-10 19:48                             ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 19:48                               ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11  9:51                               ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-10 20:11                       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-11 12:56                         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 13:10                           ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-11 13:12                           ` Trond Myklebust
2001-01-11 14:13                             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 19:03                               ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-11 19:47                                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 19:57                                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-11 16:50                           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-11 17:35                             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-11 19:38                               ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-11 19:01                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-09 19:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-17  8:46                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-25 22:51                   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-09 19:53               ` Simon Kirby
2001-01-09 20:08                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-09 20:10                 ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-10  1:45               ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10  2:26                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10  6:57                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 11:46                   ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10 14:56                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 17:46                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-10 18:33                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-17 14:26                           ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-10 19:03                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-10 19:27                           ` David S. Miller
2001-01-10 19:36                           ` Alan Cox
2001-01-10 23:56                             ` David Weinehall
2001-01-11  0:24                               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-01-12  5:56                               ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-12 16:10                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-12 21:11                                   ` Russell King
2001-01-15  2:56                                     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15  6:59                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-15  2:53                                   ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15  8:41                                     ` Caches, page coloring, virtual indexed caches, and more Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-15 11:54                                       ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 12:53                                         ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-15 17:41                                           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-17  4:36                                             ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-16  9:34                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-17  4:43                                             ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-17  8:35                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-15 17:16                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-16  4:58                                           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-15 18:22                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-01-15 12:51                                       ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-17 14:28                           ` Subtle MM bug Rik van Riel
2001-01-18  1:23                             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 11:48                               ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-10 17:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-11 14:36                       ` Jim Gettys
2001-01-08 21:30   ` Wayne Whitney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-10 19:57 Chris Wing
2001-01-08 20:39 Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-01-08 21:56 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 23:22   ` Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 23:30     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-09  0:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 22:00 ` Wayne Whitney
2001-01-08 22:15   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-07 20:59 Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-07 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 22:33   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-09  2:01   ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-17  4:48     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-17 18:53       ` Zlatko Calusic
2001-01-18  1:32         ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-17 19:37           ` H. Peter Anvin

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