[PATCH] 8xx: fix usage of pinned 8Mbyte TLB entries
Marcelo Tosatti
marcelo.tosatti at cyclades.com
Sun May 8 00:05:27 EST 2005
> NO. Just leave that code alone. I don't understand why you think
> doing this will have any effect on the system operation. If you are
> able to run a system without creating these tables, then the pinned
> TLBs must be working. If pinned TLBs weren't working, the kernel
> would crash.
I just booted a kernel with 4kb PTE mappings at KERNELBASE and
the pinned TLB was not trashed.
So, I was talking nonsense. :)
The only problem are DMA users who dont use dma_alloc_coherent API.
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