Promblem with PREF (prefetching) in memcpy

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

I think we have a problem with the PREF instructions spread out in the
memcpy function.
We are prefetching outside the area we are copying. That's usually not a
problem, but if we are prefetching outside the physical memory area
(with an unmapped kseg address), anything could happen.
We could get a bus error (which we potentially could handle), but even
worse we could have mapped the PCI space immediately following the the
RAM area and then anything could happen.

So I think, we either need to make sure not to prefetch outside a page
boundary or we make sure the last page in physical memory doesn't get
use for unmapped kernel addresses.

Any comments ?

/Carsten



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