From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
"linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Rex Feany <RFeany@mrv.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] 8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:45:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255301130.2192.45.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF0664CEC2.C4547EAA-ONC125764C.007ABA27-C125764C.007AD248@transmode.se>
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:21 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > I think I've replaced _PAGE_EXEC with _PAGE_SPECIAL already
> > upstream since _PAGE_EXEC is unused on 8xx.
>
> What is page SPECIAL anyway?
It's used on newer kernels to indicates PTEs that map something that
isn't backed by a struct page (ie, not memory)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-11 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-11 16:35 [PATCH 0/8] Fix 8xx MMU/TLB Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 1/8] 8xx: invalidate non present TLBs Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 2/8] 8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 3/8] 8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 4/8] 8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 5/8] 8xx: dcbst sets store bit in DTLB error, workaround Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 6/8] 8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 7/8] 8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 16:35 ` [PATCH 8/8] 8xx: start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 21:26 ` [PATCH 7/8] 8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-11 22:21 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 22:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-10-11 21:25 ` [PATCH 6/8] 8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-11 22:19 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 22:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-12 5:36 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-12 5:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-12 6:59 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-14 17:02 ` [PATCH 5/8] 8xx: dcbst sets store bit in DTLB error, workaround Scott Wood
2009-10-14 17:20 ` [PATCH 4/8] 8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions Scott Wood
2009-10-14 19:05 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-14 19:23 ` Scott Wood
2009-10-14 20:03 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-14 20:22 ` Scott Wood
2009-10-14 21:10 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-14 21:14 ` Scott Wood
2009-10-14 21:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14 21:41 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-14 21:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14 22:09 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-11 21:25 ` [PATCH 2/8] 8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14 16:57 ` Scott Wood
2009-10-14 16:56 ` [PATCH 1/8] 8xx: invalidate non present TLBs Scott Wood
2009-10-14 17:23 ` [PATCH 0/8] Fix 8xx MMU/TLB Scott Wood
2009-10-14 18:46 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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