update DataTLBMiss exception comment

Marcelo Tosatti marcelo.tosatti at cyclades.com
Tue Apr 19 21:52:53 EST 2005


Hi,

Since v2.6 DataTLBMiss doesnt jump to the page fault handler, it instead
loads invalid TLB which in turn causes a DataTLBError exception.

The comment on top of it haven't been update since the change. 

What about this?

--- head_8xx.S.orig	2005-04-19 13:29:14.000000000 -0300
+++ head_8xx.S	2005-04-19 13:34:44.000000000 -0300
@@ -289,13 +289,11 @@
  * For the MPC8xx, this is a software tablewalk to load the instruction
  * TLB.  It is modelled after the example in the Motorola manual.  The task
  * switch loads the M_TWB register with the pointer to the first level table.
- * If we discover there is no second level table (the value is zero), the
- * plan was to load that into the TLB, which causes another fault into the
- * TLB Error interrupt where we can handle such problems.  However, that did
- * not work, so if we discover there is no second level table, we restore
- * registers and branch to the error exception.  We have to use the MD_xxx
- * registers for the tablewalk because the equivalent MI_xxx registers
- * only perform the attribute functions.
+ * If we discover there is no second level table (value is zero) or if there 
+ * is an invalid pte, we load that into the TLB, which causes another fault 
+ * into the TLB Error interrupt where we can handle such problems.  
+ * We have to use the MD_xxx registers for the tablewalk because the 
+ * equivalent MI_xxx registers only perform the attribute functions.
  */
 InstructionTLBMiss:
 #ifdef CONFIG_8xx_CPU6



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