Re: [patch] MIPS64 R4k TLB refill CP0 hazards

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 11:32:18AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:

> > >  After looking at the generated assembly I discovered the handlers don't
> > > fit in 128 bytes.  They didn't crash since I have modules disabled for
> > > now, so the vmalloc path didn't get hit and the user path happened to fit,
> > > but it was pure luck.  The path got hit before I fixed a bug in gas though
> > > -- that's the explanation of the false cache error exceptions I used to
> > > observe.
> >
> > Ouch.  It was a known problem but we simply ignored it for a while as that
> > handler just overwrites the cache error handler which normally should be
> > used extremly rarely, if at all.  The problem is somewhat itching by now
> > as we're supporting the SB1 core which in it's revision one may throw
> > spurious cache errors, so the handler is actually used ...
> >
> 
> Maybe it's time for some intelligent check for the size of these exception
> routine.

Easy trick at compile time which will just inflate the object code a little
bit:

        .align  5
LEAF(except_vec1_r4k)
	[...]
	END(except_vec1_r4k)
	.org	except_vec1_r4k + 0x80

This will result in an assembler error if the body of the except_vec1_r4k
function is bigger than 0x80.

  Ralf