MMU_init buglet in 2.4.0-mvista_010216

David Blythe blythe at routefree.com
Sun Mar 11 16:02:04 EST 2001


memory sizes > 16M but not a multiple of 16M not quite right.  for the
24M config i was playing with it manifests itself as a tlb miss/kernel
stack overflow.

patch attached.
	david
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Index: arch/ppc/mm/init.c
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diff -u -r1.1.1.4 init.c
--- arch/ppc/mm/init.c	2001/02/21 00:52:57	1.1.1.4
+++ arch/ppc/mm/init.c	2001/03/11 04:52:27
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@
 	/* -----  pin 4MB chunks of memory  ----- */

 	if (size_pinned < size_DRAM) {
-		pinned_tlbs = ((size_DRAM - size_pinned) / SIZE_4MB);
+		pinned_tlbs += ((size_DRAM - size_pinned) / SIZE_4MB);

 		if (pinned_tlbs > PPC4xx_MAX_PINNED_TLB) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "MMU_init(): memory configuration requires %d tlb entries.\n",


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