TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Oct 8 23:31:04 EST 2007


On Oct 7, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> It would seem like we should set the default on 8xx & PReP to
>> 0x80000000 and not allow it to be modified
>
> For as much as this has been discussed in the past,
> I don't know why the 8xx doesn't check KERNEL_BASE
> and work properly with the options.  There is no reason
> this can't work.  The history is I wrote the tlb handlers
> to test the MS bit due to a hardcoded address, not that
> the address is hardcoded because I wanted to just
> test a bit.  Unlike PReP, there is no reason to
> disallow modification, if this test was changed.

Ok, I'll work up a patch for 8xx to test against PAGE_OFFSET (as benh  
suggested).

- k



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