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From: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>,
	linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Malta crashes on the latest 2.4 kernel
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:50:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2D38BE.F1C6AC73@mips.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020711043601.B3207@dea.linux-mips.net

Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:49:00PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> > > See the crash scene.  Anybody knows the cause?  It is strange to see the
> > > reserved exception.
> > >
> >
> > The 2.4 kernel checked out around Jul  4 09:28 PDT works fine on Malta.
>
> Jun's patch certainly is correct for some MIPS32 CPUs; others may get
> away without this one.  Previous experience with pipeline hazards on MIPS
> processors has shown that at times hazards may change even between minor
> revisions of a CPU; documentation isn't always trustworthy about such
> minor details of the pipeline.

I actually discovered the hazard problem on a 4Kc, based on some older RTL, but
the hazard some how disappear on a newer revision.
So you are absolutely right.

>
>   Ralf

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-11  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-10 23:12 Malta crashes on the latest 2.4 kernel Jun Sun
2002-07-10 23:49 ` H. J. Lu
2002-07-11  1:18   ` Jun Sun
2002-07-11  2:36   ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-11  6:19     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-07-11  6:19       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-07-11  6:56       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-07-11  8:35         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-07-11 11:45         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-11 11:59       ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-11  7:50     ` Carsten Langgaard [this message]
2002-07-11  7:44 ` Carsten Langgaard

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