From: Rocky Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The apparent intent of "flush_tlbs" is to invalidate TLB entries that might match in the address range 0 to 0x00400000. A loop counter is set up at the high value and decremented by page size. However, the loop is only done once as the sense of the conditional branch at the loop end does not match the setup/decrement.
Signed-off-by: Rocky Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Source is from 2.6.27 development, but the bug appears as far back as 2.4.0. The small user-space program below demonstrates the loop behavior. It was compiled via crosstool gcc 3.4.5 / glibc 2.3.6 for an MPC8347 target. int main() { long endval; // 16(r31) __asm__ __volatile__( " lis 10,0x40\n" "1: addic. 10,10,-0x1000\n" " bgt 1b\n" " stw 10,16(31)\n"); // endval printf("end value = 0x%08lx\n", endval); } This might win the prize for "Smallest actual code patch ever". --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S.orig 2008-07-24 19:25:09.000000000 -0600 +++ a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_32.S 2008-07-24 19:25:22.000000000 -0600 @@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ flush_tlbs: lis r10, 0x40 1: addic. r10, r10, -0x1000 tlbie r10 - blt 1b + bgt 1b sync blr _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev