From: David Ashley <dash@xdr•com>
To: dan@embeddededge•com
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17 bug, mmap of /dev/mem
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:04:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202272104.g1RL4bv06375@xdr.com> (raw)
I've traced the problem down to arch/ppc/mm/hashtable.S. When
there is a page fault, the function hash_page gets called. This does
some hashing and writes the hash values into a table located at
0xc0180000. That is the default value, before patching. These writes are
what is corrupting the linux kernel, because they are on top of linux
itself.
In arch/ppc/mm/ppc_mmu.c the function MMU_init_hw is called, but
since the 8260 doesn't have the CPU_FTR_HPTE_TABLE feature, the
hash table is never allocated and the hash_page_patch_* never get updated.
Turning on the CPU_FTR_HPTE_TABLE for the 8260 doesn't fix the problem.
I'm out of my depth here. This is a bug in linux, I know that much. But I
don't know what is supposed to happen during a page fault. So I need help
in resolving this.
Thanks--
Dave
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-27 21:04 David Ashley [this message]
2002-02-27 21:06 ` Linux 2.4.17 bug, mmap of /dev/mem Dan Malek
2002-02-27 21:47 ` gdbserver ppc8xx Owen Green
2002-02-27 22:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-02-28 8:01 ` Christian Pellegrin
2002-02-28 13:50 ` Owen Green
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2002-02-27 21:48 Linux 2.4.17 bug, mmap of /dev/mem David Ashley
2002-02-27 22:05 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2002-02-27 21:36 David Ashley
2002-02-26 20:17 David Ashley
2002-02-26 16:00 David Ashley
2002-02-26 3:15 David Ashley
2002-02-26 3:50 ` Dan Malek
2002-02-26 14:43 ` John W. Linville
2002-02-26 15:18 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-02-26 17:06 ` Dan Malek
2002-02-26 0:36 David Ashley
2002-02-26 0:18 David Ashley
2002-02-26 0:06 David Ashley
2002-02-25 23:43 David Ashley
[not found] <3C7AC345.301@embeddededge.com>
2002-02-25 23:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-02-25 22:29 David Ashley
2002-02-25 22:41 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-02-26 0:57 ` Greg Griffes
2002-02-26 1:34 ` Dan Malek
2002-02-25 20:27 David Ashley
2002-02-25 20:54 ` Dan Malek
2002-02-25 21:06 ` Dan Malek
2002-02-25 22:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-02-25 18:16 David Ashley
2002-02-25 18:51 ` Dan Malek
2002-02-20 15:54 David Ashley
2002-02-15 7:17 Goddeeris Frederic
2002-02-14 17:06 David Ashley
2002-02-14 9:22 Goddeeris Frederic
2002-02-12 0:36 David Ashley
2002-02-08 16:07 David Ashley
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