success 2.4.0-test8 with latest bk

[Takashi Oe]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Takashi Oe writes:
>
> > Could you try the following change for arch/ppc/mm/init.c?
> [snip]
> > 		Hash = mem_pieces_find(Hash_size, Hash_size);
> > 		clear_hash_table();
>
> Huh?  There is a __clear_user(Hash, Hash_size) call in there but it's
> commented out, which I don't understand at all.  Certainly the hash
> table needs to be cleared.

Yeah, that's what I thought when I first saw the code a few months ago.

>                             Using cacheable_memzero would probably be
> the fastest way to do it.

__clear_user() works but I can't use cacheable_memzero() since frame
buffer memory resides on the same memory block.


Takashi Oe


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