[PATCH 04/61] 8xx: Work around CPU15 erratum.
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Jul 20 01:32:55 EST 2007
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> 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 :-(
The only lower-overhead workaround I know of requires compiler
modifications (and I made it configurable to allow for that possibility).
-Scott
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