Re: Wierd code in Entry.S

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:18:21AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:55 -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
...
> > Your comment would explain why I
> > don't see this on c3750.  Could this affect PA8700?
> 
> In theory it would affect every box running a 64 bit kernel.

Yes, regarding corrupting bit-44 but not U-bit.

IIRC, only pa880 and pa8900 pay attention to the U-bit.
I thought all the previous CPUs ignored U-bit.

> We
> actually set PAGE_NO_CACHE on ioremaps(), so it's spreading out from the
> PCI device space.

Yes - but only ZX1 chipset (e.g. rp3440 and C8000) uses IO space that
is outside of F-space. F-space is hardwired to be uncachable by the CPU.

hth,
grant
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