[PATCH 04/61] 8xx: Work around CPU15 erratum.
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jul 20 01:01:45 EST 2007
> The CPU15 erratum on MPC8xx chips can cause incorrect code execution
> under certain circumstances, where there is a conditional or indirect
> branch in the last word of a page, with a target in the last cache
> line
> of the next page. This patch implements one of the suggested
> workarounds, by forcing a TLB miss whenever execution crosses a page
> boundary. This is done by invalidating the pages before and after the
> one being loaded into the TLB in the ITLB miss handler.
So you never found a bug workaround without the terrible
overhead of this one? A shame :-(
Segher
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