[PATCH] Handle I-TLB Error and Miss separately on 8xx

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at lumentis.se
Thu Jan 20 05:06:41 EST 2005


> 
> On Jan 18, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> > Then all that is missing is my dcbX patch and support for 16K pages :)
> 
> We'll get to that.  I'd prefer to support 4K and 8M pages, though.  I had

8MB pages for user space? Isn't that a bit big?

> started on doing that, some code remnants are still there, but I never
> got it to work without adding too much code to the I-tlbmiss hander.
> I want an tlbmiss handler like the example in the manual, about 10
> lines of straight code.  I don't like to be mucking around with PTE 
> entries
> a higher level function could/should have set for us in a less critical 
> path.

yes, that would be nice :)

> 
> 	-- Dan
> 



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