[PATCH] ppc64: Fix 32bit largepage issue

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Feb 21 11:30:59 EST 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:16:16AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The paca holds a shadow of the context struct, used for the real mode
> SLB handler. When we open up a new segment we have to sync up the paca
> copy otherwise we will instantiate small page SLB entries until the
> next context switch (at which point we resync the paca copy).

Oops, good catch.

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