> One could try clearing the store bit in the page fault handler, but then
> that might cause a loop.
> Not sure it has any practical meaning though.
> 
> Anyhow, you are welcome to have a look at the patches I have been tossing out.

The store bit in do_page_fault() is -very- important (and the only DSISR
bit that is as I wrote earlier). The generic code must know if a fault
is caused by a load or a store since the later is what will cause
copy_on_write to happen for example, or dirty to be set, etc..

Ben.


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