From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: Account for cache aliases in flush_icache_range()
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:02:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091106080246.GA19266@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257462879-16865-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:14:39PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> The icache may also contain aliases so we must account for them just
> like we do when manipulating the dcache. We usually get away with
> aliases in the icache because the instructions that are read from memory
> are read-only, i.e. they never change. However, the place where this
> bites us is when the code has been modified.
>
Just to be clear, I haven't actually seen any errors because of this
code. But the fix looks correct to me unless we're never in a state
where we have aliases in the icache (even though in theory we could)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-06 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 23:14 [PATCH] sh: Account for cache aliases in flush_icache_range() Matt Fleming
2009-11-06 8:02 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2009-11-09 1:49 ` Paul Mundt
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