[PATCH] powerpc/8xx: fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 25 09:52:56 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:33 -0700, Rex Feany wrote:
> Thus spake Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh at kernel.crashing.org):
> 
> > You can get my tree at:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc.git
> > 
> > (To get the "merge" branch, just add "merge" after the clone if you
> > are cloning it, or just create a local branch and manually pull
> > into it)
> 
> Your tree hangs on boot, similar to what I saw without the 8xx
> work-around patch -- it is hard to tell if it is the same though. :(

There's no backtrace ? Where does it hang ? Also which workaround
patch ? The missing tlbil_va() or the _PAGE_SPECIAL problem ?

> > Note that i just pushed out so it may take a little while for
> > the kernel.org mirrors to get it, the commit ID is: 
> > 
> > ae48e383e3299c2f87723d21df2db97927774b1e
> 
> Maybe I fail git 101 -- I can't seem to find that commit ID in the repo
> above, but I do see the patches you commited to fix PAGE_SPECIAL and the
> 8xx work-around.

Right. I must have screwed something with the ID.

Ben.



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