[PATCH 0/8] 8xx: Misc fixes for buggy insn

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Nov 6 11:33:05 EST 2009


On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:38:32PM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Here is the latest(last?) round of this series. I
> hope I got everything right now.
> Scott and Rex, please test and send ACK/NACK.
> 
>   Jocke
> 
> Joakim Tjernlund (8):
>   8xx: invalidate non present TLBs

This works, and is an important fix -- it should be applied even if the rest
of the patchset isn't ready.

>   8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects.
>   8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions.

Up through this point works.

>   8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions.

With this, the kernel hangs after "Mount-cache hash table entries: 512".

>   8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error.
>   8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU
>   8xx: start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines

Once I get up to this patch, it no longer hangs, but I get some user
processes consistently failing with EFAULT.

>   8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error.

No change after this patch.

-Scott


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