Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#16 new enhancement

mips32 loaders need to maintain cache coherence

Reported by: Jakub Jermář Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: helenos/boot/mips32 Version: mainline
Keywords: Cc:
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Description (last modified by Jakub Jermář)

The mips32 loader needs to establish cache coherence after it copies the kernel and other components around memory (corner case of self modifying code).

arm32 already does the right thing.

sparc64 already does the right thing.

ppc32 seems to flush something, but the issue still needs to be investigated/confirmed.

ia64, as of now, does not relocate neither the kernel nor the components so the caches are coherent.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Jakub Jermář, 14 years ago

Component: helenos/boot/mips32

comment:2 by Jakub Jermář, 14 years ago

Type: defectenhancement

comment:3 by Jakub Jermář, 9 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: mips32 and arm32 loaders need to maintain cache coherencemips32 loaders need to maintain cache coherence

comment:4 by Jiří Zárevúcky, 6 years ago

After the recent unification of the unpacking code, implementing this in boot loader is reduced to just implementing the clearing code and passing it to extract_payload().

Last edited 6 years ago by Jiří Zárevúcky (previous) (diff)
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