On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:53:19PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote: > This adds a shadow buffer for the SLBs and regsiters it with PHYP. > Only the bolted SLB entries (first 3) are saved. What is a SLB shadow buffer and why do we need it? (I don't want to question the patch but rather learn a little more about lowlevel ppc64 mmu details)