On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:55:25PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:55:25 +0800
> To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, zhangfx@lemote.com,
> Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Loongson: disable PAGE_SIZE_4KB
>
> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
>
> Currently, with PAGE_SIZE_4KB, the kernel for loongson will hang on:
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> The possible reason is the cache aliases problem:
>
> Loongson 2F has 64kb, 4 way L1 Cache, the way size is 16kb, which is
> bigger then 4kb. so, If using 4kb page size, there is cache aliases
> problem(Documentation/cachetlb.txt), to avoid such problem, we may need
> extra cache flushing. but with 16kb page size, there is no cache aliases
> problem and no corresponding operations needed to cope with that
> problem, so, it's better to disable 4kb page size directly before the
> above problem is solved.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Applied - though I'm not so sure if I can get this one to Linus as
close to a release as we are now.
Thanks!
Ralf
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