[PATCH 0/6] PowerPc 8xx TLB/MMU fixes

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Oct 6 08:31:58 EST 2009


Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Yes, every ld.so uses dcbX and icbi insn when relocatin code.
> Maybe you see some version of the dcbX bug, but my fault.c should
> fix them up. My bet would be the 32 byte cache line, it will miss
> out every second line and so the results are unreliable.

I found the 32-byte stuff from an objdump; it looks like there's a 
runtime check for the cache line size that avoids running that code if 
it's different.

-Scott


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