TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at au1.ibm.com
Mon Oct 8 07:05:23 EST 2007
> Can you explain (a) further -- I'm assuming the BAT mapping is 1:1
> for that region?
>
> For (b) it looks like:
> * 40x, 44x, fsl-booke compare against TASK_SIZE in their software
> handlers.
> * 8xx still tests 0x80000000
> * 6xx (603) compares against KERNELBASE
>
> It would seem like we should set the default on 8xx & PReP to
> 0x80000000 and not allow it to be modified since that will break the
> world and for everything else move it to match KERNELBASE. Any
> issues with that?
The proper value is neither :-)
It should be compared against PAGE_OFFSET.
Ben.
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