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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix __flush_icache_range on 44x
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:46:28 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250545588.4861.5.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090817160713.GE8710@zod.rchland.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 12:07 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> Olof pointed out that we could probably do the iccci before the icbi loop and
> just skip that loop entirely on 44x.  This is most certainly valid, but at
> this particular moment I don't have time to try and reproduce the issue with
> an alternative fix and I wanted to get _something_ out there to fix the issue.  
> 
> I suck for that, I know.

Well, I can massage your patch if you want. The fact is, the icbi loop
and iccci are definitely redundant :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 13:41 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix __flush_icache_range on 44x Josh Boyer
2009-08-17 16:07 ` Josh Boyer
2009-08-17 21:46   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-08-18  0:16     ` Josh Boyer
2009-08-18  0:54       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-19  7:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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