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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>,
	ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.6-rc2-bk5 mm/slab.c change broke x86-64 SMP
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 03:48:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040501014807.GC14663@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040430112704.3dca3c4c.akpm@osdl.org>

> Does this fix?
> 
> diff -puN include/asm-x86_64/processor.h~a include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
> --- 25/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h~a	Fri Apr 30 11:24:58 2004
> +++ 25-akpm/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h	Fri Apr 30 11:25:28 2004
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
>  #include <asm/mmsegment.h>
>  #include <linux/personality.h>
>  
> +#define ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES

16 should be enough actually. The problem is the FXSAVE instruction that 
is used to switch the FPU state, and that only requires 16 byte alignment.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-01  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-30 16:11 Mikael Pettersson
2004-04-30 18:21 ` Jonathan Corbet
2004-04-30 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-30 19:29   ` Jonathan Corbet
2004-04-30 20:31     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-30 19:33   ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-04-30 20:24     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-01  1:48   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-05-01  2:01     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-01  2:02       ` Andi Kleen

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