On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:22:21PM +0000, Maya Rashish wrote:
> This only need to be performed on kernel code, because only there we can have
> accesses not translated/limited by TLB. For user code, it is impossible to
> generate accesses to unwanted physical address. So it is safe.
>
> Also, to prevent addresses generated by user mode code to be used by the
> kernel, we add a few empty jumps to flush the BTB upon entrance to kernel."
Currently we do not do the empty jumps. the code claims it is flushing
the BTB but it's hard to tell as the docs are in Chinese.
Linux does this:
/*
* Clear BTB (branch target buffer), forbid RAS (return address
* stack) to workaround the Out-of-order Issue in Loongson2F
* via its diagnostic register.
*/
move k0, ra
jal 1f
nop
1: jal 1f
nop
1: jal 1f
nop
1: jal 1f
nop
1: move ra, k0
li k0, 3
mtc0 k0, $22
I've changed the code be effectively:
li k0, 3
mtc0 k0 $22
Also not sure if it's necessary to do on user_return...
