Re: Fwd: Re: still no accelerated X ($#!$*)

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000, Gabriel Paubert [off-list ref] wrote:

- write,
- eieio,
- read,
- isync to make sure that the read has reached the registers and is not in
a load pending queue or whatever which can be quite deep especially if the
processor does never need the result of the read...

Indeed. Some time ago, I fixed the pmac-pic mask/unmask routines this way:

 - setup new mask in cached_mask (variable)
 - write_mask(cached_mask)
 - do {
 -   sync();
 - } while (read_mask() != cached_mask)

Note that both read_mask and write_mask will do eieio.

I beleive the sync could be replaced by an isync, I'm just not 100% sure
of the SMP behaviour but the mask/unmask routines should be fully
synchronized anyway. (And they are called with EE off).

Without this fix, we occasionally had bogus interrupts coming from the
IDE and possibly other rare problems.

I added a smiliar fix to the openpic code in my recent kernels too.


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