[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] ppc: SDR1 fixes for ppc64

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Nov 20 23:30:56 CET 2010


>>> -	return ((sdr1 << 16) | 0x0000ffff) + 1;
>>> +	return (((sdr1 & 0x1f) << 16) | 0x0000ffff) + 1;
>>> }
>>
>> Shouldn't this actually be something like
>>  0x10000UL << (sdr1 & 0x1f)
>> ?
>
> No, I don't think so. HTABSIZE (formerly HTABMASK) is a bit mask, not
> a number. Thus the +1.

PowerISA v2.05 says:

"The HTABSIZE field in SDR1 contains an integer giving the number of bits
(in addition to the minimum of 11 bits) from the hash that are used in the
Page Table index."

It is like this on even the oldest 64-bit implementations (a 5-bit
integer, add 11; max is 28, so 11..39 bits used, 2**18..2**47 bytes htab
size).

In the 32-bit "classic" PEM, it's a bitmask indeed (9 bits, all zeroes
means 10 bits used, so 10..19 bits used, 2**16..2**25 bytes htab size).


Segher




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