From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@il.marvell.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: dcbst instruction
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:32:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16184.17299.359649.663018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F37B4F1.2040702@il.marvell.com>
Rabeeh Khoury writes:
> I have a question about the PowerPC cache line clean dcbst instruction.
> Is this instruction used at all in Linux ?
> If used, where ? kernel ? libc ? special builds of user space applications ?
It's used in the kernel and in every program that uses shared
libraries. I would expect that applications such as Java JIT
compilers would use it too.
Paul.
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2003-08-11 15:23 dcbst instruction Rabeeh Khoury
2003-08-11 15:35 ` Mark Hatle
2003-08-12 1:32 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
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