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Subject: Re: somewhat OT -- trying to build code on the fly then run it
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Fillod Stephane wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote: 
> 
>>I'm writing a testcase to test some code we wrote to allow userspace
> to flush the whole dcache and invalidate the whole icache.  
> 
> 
> Your testcase sounds like this kernel module for RT load generator:
> 
> 	http://rtai.dk/cgi-bin/gratiswiki.pl?Latency_Killer/Flushy

Unfortunately that code calls flush_instruction_cache(), which doesn't 
work on the 970 in the ppc tree, and doesn't even exist anymore in the 
ppc64 tree.

Chris