From: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid potential hazard on Context register
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:05:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD23AA0.9010702@mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091011133912.GA15684@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle wrote:
> I'm curious, did you actually manage to trigger this one? The time between
> the instructions should be fairly long but then again the 34K has been
> good for a few surprises!
Yes... It actually showed up in 74k silicon at particular clock
frequencies. The dual issue pipeline does make it susceptible to these
"theoretical" problems ;)
Chris
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-11 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-11 6:07 [PATCH] Avoid potential hazard on Context register Chris Dearman
2009-10-11 13:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-10-11 14:53 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-10-11 20:26 ` Chris Dearman
2009-10-12 3:20 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-10-11 20:05 ` Chris Dearman [this message]
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