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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <KevinK@mips.com>
Cc: S C <theansweriz42@hotmail.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Strange, strange occurence
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:11:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040712231138.GB6176@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <020201c46859$fa6b98b0$0deca8c0@Ulysses>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:48:31PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Your intuition is correct, and the code in r4k_tlb_init() does look scary.

Not scarry at all.  flush_icache_range() has to do whatever is needed to
maintain I-cache coherency for the range passed in as the argument.  And
I don't think we should really have to deal with all the complicated
details of cache maintenance in a function like r4k_tlb_init().

> But at least in the linux-mips CVS tree, flush_icache_range() tests to see
> if "cpu_has_ic_fills_f_dc" (CPU has Icache fills from Dcache, I presume)

Right.  Cpu_has_ic_fills_f_dc is only non-zero for the AMD processors
where the I-cache is refilled from the D-cache.  For typical kernel
configurations The definition of cpu_has_ic_fills_f_dc is a constant so
the compiler can optimize this further.

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-12 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 21:23 Strange, strange occurence S C
2004-07-12 21:48 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-12 21:48   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-12 22:25   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-12 22:25     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-12 23:13     ` Ralf Baechle
2004-07-12 23:11   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-07-12 23:00 ` Ralf Baechle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-30 21:06 G H
2004-07-31  5:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-07-12 23:10 S C
2004-07-12 20:49 S C
2004-07-09 18:50 S C
2004-07-10  7:33 ` Niels Sterrenburg
2004-07-10 10:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-07-12 15:16   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-12 15:16     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-13  0:33     ` Ralf Baechle
2004-07-13 15:31       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-13 15:31         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2004-07-14 12:02         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-07-14 16:35       ` Dominic Sweetman
2004-07-14 17:45         ` Michael Uhler
2004-07-14 17:45           ` Michael Uhler
2004-07-15  1:34         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2004-07-15  1:53         ` Ralf Baechle
2004-07-16 12:24         ` Ralf Baechle
2004-07-16 16:05           ` Atsushi Nemoto

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