Re: Instruction Cache Alias and the 405

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 20:00:33 EST


On 04-Apr-2000 willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
> did an mmap itself of the same executable at two addresses; but this
> is quite unusual. It doesn't matter though if your instruction caches
> contains aliases since you never write to an instruction page.

Actually you do quite often during dynamic linking, but you also need to
do an explicit icache flush after modifying the code for all
architectures where the I and D caches are not coherent.

        J

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