Our value of SHMLBA is hardcoded to 4MB on parisc due to aliasing restrictions of the platform. The firmware function PDC_CACHE does return the machine dependend value of this aliasing requirement. So, if there is a difference between those two - which we don't expect - let's report it at least. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c index c035673..3523e20 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c @@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ parisc_cache_init(void) if (pdc_cache_info(&cache_info) < 0) panic("parisc_cache_init: pdc_cache_info failed"); + /* + * The alias field returned by PDC_CACHE specifies the aliasing + * boundaries for virtual addresses. So, let's verify if our hardcoded + * value of SHMLBA (4 MB) is correct for this machine. + */ + if ((4096UL << (cache_info.dc_conf.cc_alias-1)) != SHMLBA) + pr_warn("WARNING: PDC_CACHE returns aliasing of %lu kB.\n", + (4UL << (cache_info.dc_conf.cc_alias-1))); + #if 0 printk("ic_size %lx dc_size %lx it_size %lx\n", cache_info.ic_size, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html