Re: Fix race in the accessed/dirty bit handlers

[Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@xxxxxxxx>]

Christian Hildner wrote:
> Zoltan Menyhart schrieb:
>
> > The only instruction I know of to synchronize with the "itc" mechanism is
> > the "srlz" instruction. 
>
>
> rfi implies srlz.i (and srlz.d) as well.

You are right as far as the user mode code is concerned.

Yet, we have not got any "rfi" in our

   insert TLB
   ;;
   re-read

sequence. Only a "srlz" can help.:

	itc.d	r25
	;;
	srlz.d
	ld8	r18 = [r17]

Thanks,

Zoltan
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