On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:26:42PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> >I've seen this happening on my Indy as well like once every month or even
> >more rarely. It only happens very rarely but it happens. I think the
> >hardware of my Indy is fine as all my attempts to reduce the problems I'm
> >experiencing during my development to a hardware problem have failed.
> By any chance are you guys seeing this on R5000 Indys?
Yes.
> There is an assumption in arch/mips/mm/r4xx0.c that flushing the secondary
> cache automagically flushes the same address in the primary data cache,
> but that assumption is not universally valid and there is no reason to
> believe that it is true on the R5K.
We make this assumption for R[04]00[SM]C CPUs only. For R5000SC CPU modules
as in the Indy the assumption is that we don't need to flush the l2 caches
unless we do a DMA operation in which case the special r4k_dma_*
functions will take care of the whatever might be necessary to keep caches
consistent with DMA.
Ralf
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