[PATCH] powerpc: UPDATED Don't write reserved values to MAS1[TSIZE]

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Feb 14 05:37:38 EST 2007


On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Becky Bruce wrote:

> Some of the current tlbwe instructions early on in head_fsl_booke.S take
> advantage of unarchitected behavior that allows the writing of reserved
> values to the TSIZE field.  This patch corrects that, as well as an error
> where an unitialized (by linux) value was written into a MAS register and
> used for a tlbwe.
>
> Correct this for both arch/ppc and arch/powerpc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce at freescale.com>

applied.

- k



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