[PATCH] 8xx: fix usage of pinned 8Mbyte TLB entries
Pantelis Antoniou
panto at intracom.gr
Mon May 9 16:09:51 EST 2005
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>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.
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> 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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>
Perhaps I'm jumping in too late, but in my 8xx trees all my drivers
use the correct API. So this will not be a problem after we fix the
drivers :)
Regards
Pantelis
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