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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Fuxin Zhang <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn>
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Subject: Re: RM7k cache_flush_sigtramp
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Adam,

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:40:14AM +0800, Fuxin Zhang wrote:

> Current linux code does exactly this. But I was seeing all kinds of 
> faults occuring around the
> sigreturn point on the stack without a sync? And a sync does greatly 
> improve the stablity.
> 
> >The ordering does matter however since the Hit_Invalidate_I makes sure the 
> >write buffer is flushed.

could there be an errata explaining Fuxin's findings?

Fuxin, what version are you running?

  Ralf