From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:59:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nevyn.them.org ([IPv6:::ffff:66.93.172.17]:8888 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:59:06 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AgVco-0004VO-5X; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:58:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:58:58 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nathan Field Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: ptrace induced instruction cache bug? Message-ID: <20040113205858.GA17260@nevyn.them.org> References: <20040113150108.GA7144@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3926 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:35:04AM -0800, Nathan Field wrote: > > It sounds reasonable. I've encountered this problem in the past also, > > but never with the Pro 2.1 / MIPS release which is what you're using. > > I don't see anything obviously wrong with your test code, either. > So... is there a fix for this? Usually a missing cache flush, as you surmised :) But I don't know of any that were missing in that version. > > Yes, you will need a newer toolchain. Honestly, I'm baffled as to why a > > Pro 2.1 toolchain was available from our web site at all, unless you got > > it via an old product subscription... it should have been Pro 3.0, which > > uses GCC 3.2 and a more recent binutils. But I don't have any control > > over these things :) > I downloaded it about 5 days ago from: > http://www.mvista.com/previewkit/index.html > > Could I get a preview kit of your 3.0 release for a Malta 4Kc board? Let me inquire as to why we're distributing old ones. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer