Thread (49 messages) flat view 49 messages, 4 authors, 2009-10-07

Re: [PATCH 3/6] 8xx: get rid of _PAGE_HWWRITE dependency in MMU.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2009-10-06 06:45:56

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 08:15 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
Yes, I would too but TLB Miss knows nothing about load/store, protection etc.
because DSISR isn't set. So I cannot see any other way than the TLB Error way.
Hrm... that MMU really sucks more than I thought :-(

I'll go read the manual and think about that a bit more.
But I guess BookE knows if it is a load or store in TLB Miss?
Then it can emulate changed bit I guess.
Yes, it knows.

Cheers,
Ben.
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