From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: jun.nakajima@intel.com, davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, richard.brunner@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:48:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030930224853.15073447.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001053833.GB1131@mail.shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
>
> Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> > Yes. It would kind to tell the pilot about the errata of the engine (and
> > refuse to start), rather than telling him that the engine might break
> > down anytime after the takeoff.
>
> Doesn't refusing to boot seem to heavy handed for this bug? The buggy
> CPUs have been around for many years (it is practically the entire AMD
> line for the last 4 years or so), and nobody in userspace has
> complained about the 2.4 behaviour so far. (Linux 2.4 behaviour is,
> of course, to ignore the errata).
That is the case at present. But the 2.6 kernel was hitting this
erracularity daily.
If some smart cookie decides to add prefetches to some STL implementation
or something, they are likely to start hitting it with the same frequency.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 4:30 Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 5:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 5:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-01 6:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 6:57 ` Jamie Lokier
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[not found] ` <20030930233258.37ed9f7f.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-10-01 6:47 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 7:06 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 7:41 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 8:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-10-01 8:49 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 9:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 15:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 15:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 16:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 7:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 7:39 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 8:20 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20031001065705.GI1131@mail.shareable.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-10-01 7:15 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 8:00 ` Andi Kleen
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2003-10-01 2:23 Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 2:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 3:14 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 1:54 Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 2:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 2:08 ` Mike Fedyk
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2003-09-30 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-30 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-09-30 7:38 Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 8:01 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-30 13:22 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 13:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 13:53 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 14:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 15:08 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 16:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 17:26 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 23:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 0:27 ` Andrew Morton
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