[anton@samba.org: [PATCH]: Bug in ppc32 ld.so]

Anton Blanchard anton@samba.org
Tue Jul 16 11:06:00 GMT 2002


> No, I don't agree, you haven't given any reason why ld.so should do this.

If the page is not marked guarded the cpu can instruction prefetch into the
page. Can you guarantee that current and future CPUs will never prefetch
into the icache clean area?

When I mentioned the current behaviour one of the ppc architects warned me
we were asking for trouble.

Anton



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