Fix small race in 44x tlbie function

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 9 17:01:31 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 01:35 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >>>> Did you actually see this happen?
> >>>
> >>> Yes.
> >>
> >> When?
> >>
> >> We don't have critical wired to anything, I don't expect watchdog to
> >> cause another fault.. so just wondering.
> >
> > On debug (trace) interrupts on blue gene.
> 
> Do you know why the debug code caused a fault?

Sure, it may access vmalloc space for example, which can cause a TLB
miss...

Ben.





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