Re: [Qemu-ppc] [OpenBIOS] FreeBSD powerpc issue

[Alexander Graf]

On 27.08.2012, at 13:43, Segher Boessenkool <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>> How do I flush the TLB?
>>> 
>>> tlbie, and perhaps tlbsync.
>> 
>> The QEMU TLB only caches existing translations, never misses.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here?  No PowerPC hardware that I know of
> stores a "this address doesn't go anywhere" tag in the TLB, either
> (I don't think the architecture allows that even).
> 
> I also don't see what it has to do with the problem.  The scenario
> what we think is happening: the CPU has translations for the OF code
> space in its TLB, because it has run it before.  The kernel removes
> the translations but doesn't do TLBIE on those.  On real hardware,
> the TLB entries are still used.  What does QEMU do?

Ah, I see. It depends. QEMU doesn't provide any guarantees that the TLB 
survives basically. We don't flush it often for book3s, but it can still 
happen. Maybe try to put a printf into the tlb flush handler function?


Alex

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> Segher
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