From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Opteron Rev E has a bug ... a locked instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:06:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808031106.12366.arekm@maven.pl> (raw)
Hello,
http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn-history/r48/trunk/src/base/atomicops-internals-x86.cc
says
" // Opteron Rev E has a bug in which on very rare occasions a locked
// instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier if followed by a
// non-locked read-modify-write instruction. Rev F has this bug in
// pre-release versions, but not in versions released to customers,
// so we test only for Rev E, which is family 15, model 32..63 inclusive.
if (strcmp(vendor, "AuthenticAMD") == 0 && // AMD
family == 15 &&
32 <= model && model <= 63) {
AtomicOps_Internalx86CPUFeatures.has_amd_lock_mb_bug = true;
} else {
AtomicOps_Internalx86CPUFeatures.has_amd_lock_mb_bug = false;
}
"
does kernel have quirk/workaround for this? I'm looking at arch/x86/kernel/cpu
but I don't see workaround related to this (possibly I'm overlooking).
--
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
next reply other threads:[~2008-08-03 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-03 9:06 Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2008-08-04 13:26 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-04 13:56 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-08-04 14:54 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-06 13:09 ` Mikael Pettersson
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