[PATCH 6/8] 8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error.

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Mon Oct 12 16:36:15 EST 2009


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 12/10/2009 00:44:56:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:19 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> >
> > I hear you, I can remove DTLB error with an add on patch later if that is OK?
> > I cannot remove the DARFix though, when I move that to do_page_fault(), I get
> > duplicate TLB hits on the same insn. It is like when transfer_to_handler()
> > executes rfi, the cpu restarts the the faulting insn instead of jumping
> > to the page fault handler, not always but often.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here ...

Just that I need to keep the DAR fix for dcbX insn in the DTLB handler. If I try
to move it to do_page_fault() I get a lot more DTLB errors for dcbX insn.

 Jocke



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