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DateTue, 05 Apr 2005 22:05:19 -0600
FromRobert Hancock <>
SubjectRe: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
>>I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether 
>>something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be 
>>though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the 
>>Athlon 64 - either the CPU or RAM seems the most likely suspect to me
> 
> 
> The glibc version is essentially the "perfect" copy function for the
> CPU. If you have any bus/memory problems or chipset bugs it will bite
> you.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to track this further? It seems 
fairly clear what circumstances are causing it, but as for figuring out 
what's at fault..

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