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SubjectRe: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:483!
Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>but what what's the
>>penalty of preventing microcode from loading? a performance
>>hit?
>
>
> not even that; in theory a few cpu bugs may have been fixed. Nobody
> really knows since there's no changelog for the microcode..

You can see the processor bugs in intel website, i.e.:
ftp://download.intel.com/design/Xeon/specupdt/24967847.pdf

The following sentence (IMHO) meens that bug is corrected in microcode:
"Workaround: It is possible for the BIOS to contain a workaround
for this erratum."

ciao
cate
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