On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 16:15 +0800, Li Zhong wrote: > So the code is implemented in ppc_md.hpte_remove(), may be called by > __hash_huge_page(), and asm code htab_call_hpte_remove? > > > This is why the linear mapping (and the vmemmap) must be bolted. > > If not, it would result the infinite recursion like above?
Potentially, we don't expect to fault linear mapping or vmemmap entries on demand. We aren't equipped to do it and we occasionally have code path that access the linear mapping and cannot afford to have SRR0 and SRR1 clobbered by a page fault. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
