[PATCH 0/8] Fix 8xx MMU/TLB

Dan Malek dan at embeddedalley.com
Tue Oct 27 10:26:02 EST 2009


On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> This whole thing would be a -lot- easier to do from C code. Why ?  
> Simply
> because you could just use get_user() to load the instruction rather
> than doing this page table walking in asm,

Just be careful the get_user() doesn't regenerate the same
translation error you are trying to fix by being here......
It is nice doing things in C code, but you have to be aware
of the environment and the side effects when in this kind
of exception state.

Thanks.

	-- Dan



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