On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:53:17AM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > As the code stands currently, there is a bug in the 2.4 and 2.6 handling > > of I-TLB Miss and Error exceptions on 8xx. The problem is that since we > > treat both of them as the same exception when we hit do_page_fault, > > there is a case where we can incorrectly find that a protection fault > > has occured, when it hasn't. This is because we check bit 4 of SRR1 in > > both cases, but in the case of an I-TLB Miss, this bit is always set, > > and it only indicates a protection fault on an I-TLB Error. > > Patch looks good to me, but I want to ask when this error > can be triggered in practice?
It is possible to see this in the real world, as we (<hat=mvista>) found this with a customers app. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
