Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/arm/arm
To: None <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/08/2006 12:40:54
On Saturday 07 October 2006 15:57, Ben Harris wrote:
> Modified Files:
> src/sys/arch/arm/arm: in_cksum_arm.S
>
> Log Message:
> in L_cksumdata, stash R14 on the stack before doing anything. This is
> helpful on acorn26, since kernel-mode page faults corrupt R14. Doing
> this seems to help with the occasional crashes I've seen in this
> routine.
Could you change this to a compile-time switch please? Load/Store
multiple, particularly if conditional, are slow on some flavours of CPU.
Cheers, Steve