invala

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:09:38PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the code in exception.S:TRAP() doesn't invalidate the ALAT 
> on a register backing store switch. This could be a problem if the kernel 
> starts using data speculation (say by using a different compiler). However, 
> restorectx is doing the right thing by using invala.

Why would this be a problem?

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