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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ppc32/8xx: Fix r3 trashing due to 8MB TLB page instantiation
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On Aug 28, 2007, at 6:20 AM, Jochen Friedrich wrote:

> Instantiation of 8MB pages on the TLB cache for the kernel static
> mapping trashes r3 register on !CONFIG_8xx_CPU6 configurations.
> This ensures r3 gets saved and restored.
>
> This has been posted to linuxppc-embedded by Marcelo Tosatti
> <marcelo@kvack.org>, but only an incomplete version of the patch
> has been applied in c51e078f82096a7d35ac8ec2416272e843a0e1c4.
> This patch adds the rest of the fix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
> ---
> arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 2 --
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> This can be pulled from git://git.bocc.de/dbox2.git ppc-fixes
> diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> index 944c35c..eb8d26f 100644
> --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S
> @@ -495,9 +495,7 @@ LoadLargeDTLB:
> lwz r11, 4(r0)
>
> lwz r12, 16(r0)
> -#ifdef CONFIG_8xx_CPU6
> lwz r3, 8(r0)
> -#endif
> rfi
>
> /* This is the data TLB error on the MPC8xx. This could be due to

do we need this in arch/powerpc as well?

- k

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