Subject: Re: MachHitFlushDCache() call in vm_machdep.c
To: None <port-mips@netbsd.org>
From: Takao Shinohara <shin@sm.sony.co.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 06/16/2000 10:00:07
nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp (Toru Nishimura) writes:
> >> #ifdef MIPS3
> >>         /* ? make sense ? */
> >>         if (CPUISMIPS3)
> >>                 MachHitFlushDCache((vaddr_t)p2->p_addr, USPACE);
> >> #endif
> >
> > This cache operation is necessary for R4000/R4400 with secondary cache.
> > Do not remove.
> 
> Could you explain the case it fails to the world?

Read comments in vm_machdep.c.

--- Takao Shinohara