Re: [PATCH] ppc32/8xx: Fix r3 trashing due to 8MB TLB page instantiation

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On Aug 28, 2007, at 6:20 AM, Jochen Friedrich wrote:

Instantiation of 8MB pages on the TLB cache for the kernel static
mapping trashes r3 register on !CONFIG_8xx_CPU6 configurations.
This ensures r3 gets saved and restored.

This has been posted to linuxppc-embedded by Marcelo Tosatti
<[email protected]>, but only an incomplete version of the patch
has been applied in c51e078f82096a7d35ac8ec2416272e843a0e1c4.
This patch adds the rest of the fix.

Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <[email protected]>
---
 arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This can be pulled from git://git.bocc.de/dbox2.git ppc-fixes
diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S
index 944c35c..eb8d26f 100644
--- a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S
+++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S
@@ -495,9 +495,7 @@ LoadLargeDTLB:
 	lwz	r11, 4(r0)

 	lwz	r12, 16(r0)
-#ifdef CONFIG_8xx_CPU6
 	lwz	r3, 8(r0)
-#endif
 	rfi

 /* This is the data TLB error on the MPC8xx.  This could be due to

do we need this in arch/powerpc as well?

- k

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