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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@ru•mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] powerpc: MPC7450 L2 HW cache flush feature	utilization
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:09:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1183028945.5521.274.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468391B3.3080100@ru.mvista.com>

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 14:47 +0400, Vladislav Buzov wrote:
> 
> I've looked through cache.S and see it contains a dcbf loop over 4Mb 
> along with L2, L3 HW cache flushing. The comments says 'Due to a bug 
> with the HW flush on some CPU revs, we occasionally experience data 
> corruption...'. Could you please clarify which CPU revisions have this 
> bug and whether it is the same bug described in errata and requiring a 
> complete cache locking before flushing? Do we still need to use the dcbf 
> loop in _set_L2CR() for MPC7450 processors?

Can't remember ... that code is pretty old now.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-28 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-13 10:19 [RFC/PATCH] powerpc: MPC7450 L2 HW cache flush feature utilization Vladislav Buzov
2007-06-14 13:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-14 17:12   ` Vladislav Buzov
2007-06-14 22:26     ` Mark A. Greer
2007-06-15  8:16       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  8:55         ` Vladislav D. Buzov
2007-06-15  9:01           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  9:33             ` Vladislav D. Buzov
2007-06-15 10:44               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  8:14     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15  8:42       ` Vladislav D. Buzov
2007-06-15  8:56         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-15 21:20       ` Mark A. Greer
2007-06-15 22:14         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-21 12:37         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-22 15:22           ` Vladislav Buzov
2007-06-23 15:46             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-25 14:09               ` Vladislav Buzov
2007-06-28  8:24                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-28  9:13                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-28 10:47                     ` Vladislav Buzov
2007-06-28 11:09                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-06-25 19:00   ` Vladislav Buzov
2007-06-28  8:35     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-29 10:41       ` Vladislav Buzov

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