From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, "R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Opteron bug
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:57:38 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0407121450290.10440@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F2CB97.1070806@zytor.com>
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > The kernel never uses backwards REP prefixes.
> >
>
> Not even for memmove()?
>
> -hpa
>
One can't assume that 'cld' is not required because a user can
execute 'std'. Such a user, calling a kernel function in its
context, could really make a mess by executing 'std' before.
You definitely need a 'cld' inside any copy_to/from_user code.
memmove(), can copy overlapping buffers. It does this by
copying backwards when necessary. If it uses ix86 string
primatives, it executes 'std' for the backwards repeat counts.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-12 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-19 20:29 R. J. Wysocki
2004-06-20 13:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-20 11:47 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-06-20 12:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
[not found] ` <200406210254.53124.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-06-21 5:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-06-20 13:49 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-12 17:34 ` [discuss] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-12 18:57 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
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