Re: TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

2007-10-08 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 7, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Dan Malek wrote: On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Kumar Gala wrote: It would seem like we should set the default on 8xx PReP to 0x8000 and not allow it to be modified For as much as this has been discussed in the past, I don't know why the 8xx doesn't check

Re: TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

2007-10-08 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 7, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Can you explain (a) further -- I'm assuming the BAT mapping is 1:1 for that region? For (b) it looks like: * 40x, 44x, fsl-booke compare against TASK_SIZE in their software handlers. * 8xx still tests 0x8000 * 6xx (603)

Re: TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

2007-10-07 Thread Kumar Gala
On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Kumar Gala writes: In a discussion with Hollis over beer he raised the question why TASK_SIZE is 0x8000 on ppc32. I was wondering if anyone know why this was still the case? Seems like we have a 1Gb whole between TASK_SIZE

Re: TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

2007-10-07 Thread Dan Malek
On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Kumar Gala wrote: It would seem like we should set the default on 8xx PReP to 0x8000 and not allow it to be modified For as much as this has been discussed in the past, I don't know why the 8xx doesn't check KERNEL_BASE and work properly with the options.

Re: TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

2007-10-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Can you explain (a) further -- I'm assuming the BAT mapping is 1:1 for that region? For (b) it looks like: * 40x, 44x, fsl-booke compare against TASK_SIZE in their software handlers. * 8xx still tests 0x8000 * 6xx (603) compares against KERNELBASE It would seem like we should

TASK_SIZE default 0x80000000 ?

2007-10-06 Thread Kumar Gala
In a discussion with Hollis over beer he raised the question why TASK_SIZE is 0x8000 on ppc32. I was wondering if anyone know why this was still the case? Seems like we have a 1Gb whole between TASK_SIZE KERNELBASE. - k ___ Linuxppc-dev