Re: FPU emulator unsafe for SMP?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> The context register is actually intended to be used for indexing a flat
> 4mb array of pagetables on a 32-bit processor.  It's a bit ill-defined
> on R4000-class processors as it assumes a size of 8 bytes per pte, so
> cannot be used in the Linux/MIPS kernel without shifting bits around.

 Ill???  I think someone was just longsighted enough not to limit PTEs to
38-bit physical addresses.  A shift costs a single cycle if we want to
save memory. 

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