Re: [GIT PULL] parisc huge page support for v4.4

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Helge Deller wrote:

> > Hi
> > 
> > Since the kernel 4.4-rc2 I'm getting frequent boot failures on PA-RISC. 
> > When I revert this patchset, the crashes are gone.
> 
> > [    3.296666] CPU(s): 4 out of 4 PA8900 (Shortfin) at 1000.000000 MHz online
> 
> Hi Mikulas,
> 
> Yes, I've seen this as well.
> It affects only the PA8900 CPUs, while all PA8500-PA8700 machines seem to work fine.
> I do have a temporary 3-line patch to avoid the crashes which I'll push to my tree shortly.
> I'm still investigating why it only affects the PA8900 CPUs, but I assume
> it's related to the cache aliasing of those CPUs.
> I'll keep you updated.
> 
> Helge

The PA-RISC specification doesn't allow aliasing on non-equaivalent 
addresses. Can the kernel map a piece of kernel data to other virtual 
address? If yes, we can't use big pages to map kernel data.

Mikulas
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