Re: Subtle MM bug

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:24:20 +0000 (GMT)


> > The MMU on these systems is a CAM, and the mmu table is thus backwards to
> > convention. (It also means you can notionally map two physical addresses to
> > one virtual but thats undefined in the implementation ;))
>
> Are there any other (not yet supported) platforms with similar (or other
> unrelated, but hard to support because of the current architecture of
> the kernel) problems?

I believe its uniquely deranged. There are people who have asked for reverse
tables for other purposes (eg cache flush handling) but their mmu is the normal
way around.

Alan

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