| To: | Dominic Sweetman <dom@mips.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: RM7k cache_flush_sigtramp |
| From: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> |
| Date: | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:51:57 +0200 (MET DST) |
| Cc: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Adam Kiepul <Adam_Kiepul@pmc-sierra.com>, Fuxin Zhang <fxzhang@ict.ac.cn>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <16174.7469.845997.741559@gladsmuir.mips.com> |
| Organization: | Technical University of Gdansk |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
Dominic, > I think it would be better to provide cache manipulation calls defined > top-down (by their purpose); but so long as we are stuck with calls > which are defined as performing particular low-level actions, it's > surely dangerous to guess that we know what they are used for so we > can trim the functions accordingly... The API is not cast in stone -- if there's a justifiable benefit, appropriate fuctions can be added; either completely new ones (possibly inlined) or as an extension to cacheflush() (which still has 30 bits freely available). Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + |
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