From owner-freebsd-platforms Tue Feb 25 20:31:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EAC37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:31:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail0.rawbw.com (mail0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADFC43FA3 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jnewlin@tsoft.com) Received: from john1 (m206-98.dsl.tsoft.com [198.144.206.98]) by mail0.rawbw.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id h1Q4VfP57462 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jnewlin@tsoft.com) Message-ID: <004501c2dd4f$c92698e0$0b01a8c0@john1> From: "John Newlin" To: Subject: cache aliasing on hardware with virtually indexed caches Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:30:25 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Can someone point me to information regarding how the BSD kernel deals with architectures that have cache aliasing issues? E.G. sparc64, sh-4, some of the mips implementations all have virtually indexed/physically tagged caches that are larger than the page size. I'm just not sure where to start looking. Thanks, -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the message