[PATCH 0/8] 8xx: Misc fixes for buggy insn

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Nov 12 02:26:53 EST 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:06:10AM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote on 11/11/2009 00:21:18:
> > Where would you put the dcbi?  How do you regain control after that
> > cache line has been refilled, but before code flows back to the bad branch?
> 
> The dcbi would replace the current CPU15 tlbie.

But that only works if you take an ITLB miss at the right time.

-Scott


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