From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: FPU emulator unsafe for SMP?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:09:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020220140917.C15588@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020219171238.E25739@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:12:38PM -0800
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:12:38PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> > It's gotta be done. I mean, the last I heard (which was a long
> > time ago) mips64 Linux was keeping the CPU node number in
> > a watchpoint register (or something equally unwholesome)
>
> It seems that people are getting smarter by putting cpu id to
> context register. In fact isn't this part of new MIPS
> standard?
The context register is actually intended to be used for indexing a flat
4mb array of pagetables on a 32-bit processor. It's a bit ill-defined
on R4000-class processors as it assumes a size of 8 bytes per pte, so
cannot be used in the Linux/MIPS kernel without shifting bits around.
Also in case of Linux it means entering the world of cache aliases ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-20 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 1:56 FPU emulator unsafe for SMP? Jun Sun
2002-02-15 2:11 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-15 7:20 ` Jun Sun
2002-02-15 8:30 ` Jun Sun
2002-02-15 9:59 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-15 9:59 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-19 22:05 ` Jun Sun
2002-02-19 22:19 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 0:08 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 0:08 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 1:12 ` Jun Sun
2002-02-20 3:28 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-02-20 4:24 ` Jun Sun
2002-02-20 4:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-20 9:48 ` Jun Sun
2002-02-20 10:14 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 10:14 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 13:50 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 20:53 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-02-20 13:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 4:48 ` Greg Lindahl
2002-02-20 9:27 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-02-20 13:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 9:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-02-20 11:14 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 13:10 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 8:27 ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-02-20 9:30 ` Florian Lohoff
2002-02-20 13:56 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 13:09 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-02-20 14:42 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 14:42 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-20 14:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-20 15:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-20 15:45 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-02-20 13:03 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-15 8:14 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-15 8:14 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-02-15 10:57 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-19 22:02 ` Jun Sun
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