xine, ppc and illegal instructions
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Apr 2 06:12:53 EST 2001
>- could there be a cache flushing bug? When run in gdb if you set some
>breakpoints in the shared library, it will flush the icache (to make sure the
>breakpoint gets flushed out of data cache and any preloaded instruction are
>thrown away) this in turn seems to "fix" the cache flush problem if one
>exists.
Franz and I checked glibc for the cache flushing problem reported by
Samuel Rydth and it's ok. However, the kernel did miss those sync's.
I can't tell if it's the cause of the problem, however, my rsync kernel
have those changes. I'll push them to bk soon.
Ben.
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