dcache BUG()
Brian Kuschak
brian.kuschak at skystream.com
Fri May 11 07:20:12 EST 2001
> What can happen is a lwarx to an address, in some other context a
> simple store to that address (no reservation broken) then a subsequent
> stwcx. to the address will appear successful. Hmmmm.....several
> ways to fix it, I wonder what will work best.....
Yes, this sounds bad. However, I wonder if it's really the cause of this
particular bug. I cannot find any code which does a regular store to the
d_count variables. All writes to these counters appear to use the atomic
ops.
Brian
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