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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>,
	linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr
Subject: Re: SysV IPC shared memory and virtual alising
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:24:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010814102452.E5928@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15214.23110.345236.934305@gladsmuir.algor.co.uk>; from dom@algor.co.uk on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:50:14AM +0100

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:50:14AM +0100, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

> > Here is an patch to fix virtual aliasing problem with SysV IPC
> > shared memory.  I tested this patch on a r4k cpu with 32Kb D-cache.
> > 
> > If D-cache is smaller than PAGE_SIZE this patch is not needed at
> > all...
> 
> More precisely, if the size of a D-cache "set" is smaller than
> PAGE_SIZE.  So a CPU with a 16Kbyte 4-way set-associative cache and
> 4Kbyte PAGE_SIZE is safe.

Or is physically indexed and physically tagged or magically deals with
aliasing such as R4000 / R4400 SC and MC versions or R10000, R12000 or
R14000.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-14  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-06  7:44 SysV IPC shared memory and virtual alising Atsushi Nemoto
2001-08-06  8:50 ` Dominic Sweetman
2001-08-14  8:24   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-08-14  8:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-08-16  3:04   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2002-05-07  6:48   ` XSHM/shared-pixmap fix Was: Linux Shared Memory Issue Atsushi Nemoto
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-24 21:27 Maurice Turcotte
2002-04-24 22:03 ` Jun Sun
2002-04-25  5:25   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2002-04-25 18:46     ` Jun Sun
2002-04-26  3:11       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2002-04-27 21:45   ` XSHM/shared-pixmap fix Was: " Florian Lohoff
2002-05-06 11:04     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-04-25 15:36 ` Florian Lohoff

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