[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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