Thread (129 messages) flat view 129 messages, 11 authors, 2007-07-19

Re: [PATCH 04/61] 8xx: Work around CPU15 erratum.

From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-19 15:01:57

The CPU15 erratum on MPC8xx chips can cause incorrect code execution
under certain circumstances, where there is a conditional or indirect
branch in the last word of a page, with a target in the last cache  
line
of the next page.  This patch implements one of the suggested
workarounds, by forcing a TLB miss whenever execution crosses a page
boundary.  This is done by invalidating the pages before and after the
one being loaded into the TLB in the ITLB miss handler.
So you never found a bug workaround without the terrible
overhead of this one?  A shame :-(


Segher
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