Thiemo Seufer wrote:
[snip]
> > With this fix the machines goes userspace (reverse engineered by sound
> > of hard disk) but seems to die somewhere. Probably the same bug as seen
> > on other archs - die on first fork.
>
> The last problem happens only on r4000 and r4400, and occasionally
> also shows up as "illegal instruction" or "unaligned access". It
> turned out to be a broken TLB handler. I temporarily switched (for
> 32bit kernels) from except_vec0_r4000 to except_vec0_r45k_bvahwbug.
> This may cause an avoidable performance loss, but at least it allows
> my R4400SC-200 (V6.0) Indy to run current 2.6 CVS.
One more nop is enough to make it work. This should probably go in
a hazard definition.
Thiemo
Index: arch/mips/mm/tlbex32-r4k.S
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RCS file: /home/cvs/linux/arch/mips/mm/tlbex32-r4k.S,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 tlbex32-r4k.S
--- arch/mips/mm/tlbex32-r4k.S 20 Jun 2004 23:52:17 -0000 1.1
+++ arch/mips/mm/tlbex32-r4k.S 2 Oct 2004 20:36:29 -0000
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
P_MTC0 k1, CP0_ENTRYLO1 # load it
mtc0_tlbw_hazard
tlbwr # write random tlb entry
+ nop
tlbw_eret_hazard
eret # return from trap
END(except_vec0_r4000)
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