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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
To: <khendricks@ivey•uwo.ca>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>, <billfink@capu•net>
Subject: Re: xine, ppc and illegal instructions
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:12:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010401201253.17215@smtp.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01040116021700.15950@localhost>


>- could there be a cache flushing bug?  When run in gdb if you set some
>breakpoints in the shared library, it will flush the icache (to make sure the
>breakpoint gets flushed out of data cache and any preloaded instruction are
>thrown away) this in turn seems to "fix" the cache flush problem if one
>exists.

Franz and I checked glibc for the cache flushing problem reported by
Samuel Rydth and it's ok. However, the kernel did miss those sync's.
I can't tell if it's the cause of the problem, however, my rsync kernel
have those changes. I'll push them to bk soon.

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-01 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103262330001.19578-100000@gwiz.nasa.atd.net >
2001-03-27 13:41 ` xine, ppc and illegal instructions Franz Sirl
2001-04-01 17:51   ` Bill Fink
2001-04-01 19:39     ` Michel Dänzer
2001-04-01 21:08       ` Bill Fink
2001-04-01 20:02     ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-04-01 20:12       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2001-04-01 21:24       ` Bill Fink
2001-04-02 11:50         ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-03-30  5:26 Henry Worth
2001-03-31 20:16 ` Bill Fink
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-30  5:20 Henry Worth
2001-03-30  5:29 ` David Edelsohn
2001-03-30 14:59   ` Henry Worth
2001-03-27  5:30 Bill Fink
2001-03-24 19:17 Henry Worth
2001-03-24  6:13 Henry Worth
2001-03-24  4:58 Henry Worth
2001-03-24 10:57 ` Stefan Berndtsson
2001-03-23 23:53 Stefan Berndtsson
2001-03-24  0:09 ` Gregorio Gervasio Jr.

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