Re: Apparent kernel bug with GDB on ppc405

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-24T22:41:40Z

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Not completely implausible, but a) why isn't this seen on basically
> every machine with software TLB? b) why does -local- GDB, which is
> presumably doing much less work than gdbserver + network stack, not fail?

You said it yourself. Local gdb does more work -> blows through more
TLB entries.

I can't answer you about the other half, but I'm pretty sure TLB
invalidation is already supposed to be happening... somewhere.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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