[PATCH] ppc64: Fix 32bit largepage issue

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 22 10:17:26 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:30 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> 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.

Andrew, might be worth sticking in 2.6.11 ...

Ben.





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