wilbur.chan wrote:

2009/8/27 Scott Wood [off-list ref]:

quoted

Is this under Linux (it is a Linux mailing list...)?  If so, there are
better ways of communicating that don't involve clobbering random memory and
overlapping userspace TLB mappings.

Yes, I'm doing this under linux in kernel mode.

I've used interrupt between cores, to make:

1) cpu0  carrys some data to a place (As a matter of fact ,the 'data'
is a kernel, the 'place' is at 0, and  I'm using kexec..)

2) cpu0 writes a 'flag' to a physical address(16M), to indicate that ,

it has finished the carrying in step 1. And jump to new kernel directly.

OK, so it's not really "under Linux" but "between Linuxes". :-)

Don't forget to clean the cache out on the destination core -- icache is 
not coherent with dcache.

3) cpu1 enters the loop by IRQ , checking the 'flag' from time to
time. If the 'flag' is true, it

breaks the  loop and jumps to the instruction in new kernel.

quoted

Do both cores have a mapping with the M bit (memory coherence required) set?

What do you mean by  M bit set?

There is a bit in MAS2, labelled "M", that you must set when writing the 
TLB entry for the mapping to be coherent across cores.

-Scott