Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:30:57 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.5-aa1 arch updates |
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Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> I'm unsure about the arch/ppc/mm/pgtable.c part, I mean, ppc is being > tested heavily, how can it be necessary if nobody ever got an oops yet? > OTOH your patch certainly cannot hurt and it might be needed after all. > Maybe I should apply it after all, it'd be nice to get a comment on this > bit from ppc people who knows tlb.c better to be sure.
We definitely need page->mapping and page->index set on pte and pmd pages, both on ppc and ppc64. Otherwise the flush_tlb_* functions won't work properly. Hugh's patch looks good to me (at least as far as the ppc/ppc64 bits are concerned).
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