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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S index 5a7a64e91fc..eb18cadb375 100644 --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S @@ -288,13 +288,11 @@ SystemCall: * For the MPC8xx, this is a software tablewalk to load the instruction * TLB. It is modelled after the example in the Motorola manual. The task * switch loads the M_TWB register with the pointer to the first level table. - * If we discover there is no second level table (the value is zero), the - * plan was to load that into the TLB, which causes another fault into the - * TLB Error interrupt where we can handle such problems. However, that did - * not work, so if we discover there is no second level table, we restore - * registers and branch to the error exception. We have to use the MD_xxx - * registers for the tablewalk because the equivalent MI_xxx registers - * only perform the attribute functions. + * If we discover there is no second level table (value is zero) or if there + * is an invalid pte, we load that into the TLB, which causes another fault + * into the TLB Error interrupt where we can handle such problems. + * We have to use the MD_xxx registers for the tablewalk because the + * equivalent MI_xxx registers only perform the attribute functions. */ InstructionTLBMiss: #ifdef CONFIG_8xx_CPU6 |