Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:58:47 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4.23-pre8] Remove broken prefetching in free_one_pgd() |
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:52:59AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > It isn't on some CPUs. Early athlons go bang when you prefetch > > past the end of RAM into unmapped memory for eg. > > Well, broken HW :-(
There's a lot of it out there. If we didn't try to work around some of it, we'd end up running on less < 10% of machines out there 8-)
> but andi's patch should fix up for that.
Different bug.
Dave
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