Re: Apparent kernel bug with GDB on ppc405
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <hidden>
Date: 2007-10-24 23:03:54
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
Not completely implausible, but a) why isn't this seen on basically every machine with software TLB? b) why does -local- GDB, which is presumably doing much less work than gdbserver + network stack, not fail?
You said it yourself. Local gdb does more work -> blows through more TLB entries. I can't answer you about the other half, but I'm pretty sure TLB invalidation is already supposed to be happening... somewhere. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery