[PATCH v2 11/11] powerpc/8xx: Add support for TASK_SIZE greater than 0x80000000
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Mar 21 11:47:09 AEDT 2015
On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 10:57 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> By default, TASK_SIZE is set to 0x80000000 for PPC_8xx, which is most likely
> sufficient for most cases. However, kernel configuration allows to set TASK_SIZE
> to another value, so the 8xx shall handle it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
>
> ---
> v2: no change
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> index ead6448..92a6456 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> @@ -48,6 +48,19 @@
> mtspr spr, reg
> #endif
>
> +/* Macro to test if an address is a kernel address */
> +#if CONFIG_TASK_SIZE <= 0x80000000
> +#define IS_KERNEL(tmp, addr) \
> + andis. tmp, addr, 0x8000 /* Address >= 0x80000000 */
> +#define BRANCH_UNLESS_KERNEL(label) beq label
> +#else
This works if CONFIG_TASK_SIZE == 0x80000000, but what if it's less, and
you have a kernel address < 0x80000000?
-Scott
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