Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Followup to previous post: Atlon/VIA Instabilities | Date | Tue, 1 May 2001 14:02:12 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So it seems that CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW is simply used to > enable access to the routines in mmx.c (the athlon-optimized > routines on CONFIG_K7 kernels), so then it appears that somehow > this is corrupting memory / not behaving as it should (very > technical, right?) :)...
Feel free to go over those routines in detail by hand. I've been over them and I can't see any problems. The obvious candidates would be races in the kernel_fpu_begin/end code but that also seems watertight to me.
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