On the prom boot path, with the firmware supposed to be managing the MMU, there is a case where:
1. Linux changes some BAT registers. 2. Bits 0x00000070 are/become set in the MSR. 3. Linux takes an MMU fault. 4. The firmware handles it. AFAIK, you can't expect the firmware to leave the BAT alone. If the firmware provides mapping services by using the BAT as a software-filled TLB, Linux's BAT changes may be lost. You also can't expect that your BAT changes will not conflict with mappings that the firmware uses for itself. The firmware might write to your new BAT mapping, relying on those virtual addresses to be something else entirely. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
