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From: Dan Malek <dan@netx4.com>
To: daniel.marmier@lightning.ch
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@netx4.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Help with string.S
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:52:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <396E0FD1.B43AC724@embeddededge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 396AB595.DC926132@lightning.ch


Daniel Marmier wrote:
>
> Dan Malek wrote:
> > These are becoming a pain in the ass instructions.

> I have seen this happen on cacheable memory with copyback enabled.
> The dcbz-memcpy caused the destination to be zeroed, IIRC.


OK, I think I am bailing out here.  For some reason, if I remove
the 'dcbz' instructions on the MPC8xx processor the world is just
a better place.  I don't know why, maybe because of some of the
TLB mapping, but I can't find a reason.

I am going to put #ifdef CONFIG_8xx around the dcbz instructions,
and where they are actually used to zero-fill memory I will use
store operations.  The other option is to make the changes at a
higher level (like make 'clear_page' call 'memset' with 0), but I
think the direct assembly changes are preferable.  Suggestions welcome.

I'll keep looking for a better solution, but I can't hold up others
trying to use this kernel.

Thanks.


	-- Dan

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-13 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-08 22:57 Help with string.S Dan Malek
2000-07-08 23:57 ` Dan Malek
2000-07-10  6:14 ` Daniel Marmier
2000-07-10 15:17   ` David Edelsohn
2000-07-10 22:42   ` Dan Malek
2000-07-11  5:50     ` Daniel Marmier
2000-07-13 18:52       ` Dan Malek [this message]
2000-07-11 10:06     ` Adrian Cox
2000-07-11 15:53       ` Dan Malek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-16  7:26 Graham Stoney
2000-08-16 16:22 ` tom_gall
2000-08-17  0:50   ` Graham Stoney
2000-08-17 19:28 ` Dan Malek

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