All,
I have a routine to invalidate the data cache from user space (since I do not
believe there is a standard routine I can use outside of kernel space??).
Here is the code:
.text;
.globl cacheInvalidate405;
cacheInvalidate405:
/*
* r3 = Data cache
* r4 = address
* r5 = number of bytes
*/
cmpwi r5,0 /* make sure number of bytes is > 0 */
beq invalDone
add r6,r4,r5
addi r6,r6,31
rlwinm r6,r6,0,0,26 /* end addr to start of next cache line */
rlwinm r7,r4,0,0,26 /* start address back to start of line */
sub r6,r6,r7
srawi r6,r6,5 /* divide by 32 to get number of lines */
mtctr r6
invalLoop:
dcbi r0,r4 /* THIS INSTRUCTION FAILS! */
addi r4,r4,32
bdnz invalLoop
sync
invalDone:
blr
.size cacheInvalidate405, . - cacheInvalidate405
What is happening is the dcbi instruction will fail. I get an Illegal
Instruction message on the console and my program exits.
Is there a reason I cannot call dbci from a user space application, or is there
something wrong in my code? Even better, is there a working and tested
function that I can call from user space to invalidate a portion of the data
cache?
Thanks!
Jonathan
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