[PATCH 2/4] 8xx: Avoid testing for kernel space in ITLB Miss.

Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se
Fri Feb 26 19:29:41 EST 2010


Only modules will cause ITLB Misses as we always pin
the first 8MB of kernel memory.
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index ecc4a02..84ca1d9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -318,12 +318,16 @@ InstructionTLBMiss:
 	/* If we are faulting a kernel address, we have to use the
 	 * kernel page tables.
 	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+	/* Only modules will cause ITLB Misses as we always
+	 * pin the first 8MB of kernel memory */
 	andi.	r11, r10, 0x0800	/* Address >= 0x80000000 */
 	beq	3f
 	lis	r11, swapper_pg_dir at h
 	ori	r11, r11, swapper_pg_dir at l
 	rlwimi	r10, r11, 0, 2, 19
 3:
+#endif
 	lwz	r11, 0(r10)	/* Get the level 1 entry */
 	rlwinm.	r10, r11,0,0,19	/* Extract page descriptor page address */
 	beq	2f		/* If zero, don't try to find a pte */
-- 
1.6.4.4



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