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Re: enforcing page color matches

by Masao Uebayashi-2 :: Rate this Message:

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What happens if loaning is done?

Masao

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Matt Thomas <matt@...> wrote:
> I modified the mips pmap to drop into ddb if there was an attempt to map a page with an incorrect page color (color(VA) != color(PA)).  Then using UVMHIST I fixed each cause.  I can now boot a kernel on my matt-nb5-mips64 branch into sysinst with no bad color matches.  I'm sure I haven't found all the cases but it's a big step forward.
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> The diffs are relatively minor and are at www.netbsd.org/~matt/uvm-color-diffs.txt for your viewing enjoyment.
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> I'm using a MIPS 74K which needs strict page-coloring enforcement (4 colors for its Icache and 2 colors for its Dcache) so this is important to me.  If this can be enforced, the code to deal with bad colors can be removed and that will greatly simplify the mips pmap code.
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