Subject: Re: R4000 cache lines
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mips
Date: 06/03/1998 08:17:13
On Wed, 03 Jun 1998 02:35:03 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > >Are the R4000 virtually indexed cache entries tagges with ASIDs?
 > 
 > For kseg0/kuseg, right? They better not be, or all sorts of things,
 > like kernel malloc, would also break.
 > 
 > (Userspace addresses have to be and k1seg shouldn't be in the cache.)

Ok, then *crosses fingers* the changes I committed should DTRT, except
for userspace addresses... don't know how to deal with those, per se,
because the process that requested the I/O may not be the current process,
and so a TLB miss would spell disaster.

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