linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 07/56] microblaze

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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2008 17:33:45 -0700
From:	"Stephen Neuendorffer" <stephen.neuendorffer@...inx.com>
To:	"John Williams" <john.williams@...alogix.com>
Cc:	<monstr@...nam.cz>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<arnd@...db.de>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"John Linn" <linnj@...inx.com>, <matthew@....cx>,
	<will.newton@...il.com>, <drepper@...hat.com>,
	<microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au>, <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"Michal Simek" <monstr@...str.eu>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 07/56] microblaze_v2: Signal support


You're right.  (I think I've been staring at this too much today... :)

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Williams [mailto:john.williams@...alogix.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 5:26 PM
> To: Stephen Neuendorffer
> Cc: monstr@...nam.cz; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; arnd@...db.de;
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org; John
> Linn; matthew@....cx; will.newton@...il.com; drepper@...hat.com;
microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au;
> grant.likely@...retlab.ca; Michal Simek
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 07/56] microblaze_v2: Signal support
> 
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:13 -0700, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
> > I'm somewhat ignorant about what this code is attempting to do, but
with
> > some quick poking around (m68knommu, blackfin) seems to suggest that
> > other architectures don't do this, while others (v850) have almost
> > exactly the same code (although they are somewhat smarter and are
> > careful not to flush the whole cache).
> >
> > At the very least, it seems like there is some work in this area
needed.
> 
> flush_cache_sigtramp should just invalidate 8 bytes up from the base
> address of the trampoline.  This is just the region on the process
stack
> where we insert a kind of call-back back.  Writing the opcodes goes
via
> the dcache, and so there's a vanishingly small possibility that the
CPU
> will get a false hit on on an icache fetch when the code is executed.
> 
> That was what Michal's patch had when I scanned it yesterday.  It
> certainly won't/shouldn't be invalidating the entire cache.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 


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