Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 2008 12:17:44 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: support for x86_64 |
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> Most of them look something like this: > > kmemcheck: Caught 8-bit read from freed memory (ffff81000780a904) > ifffffffifffffffifffffffifffffffifffffffifffffffifffffffifffffff > ^ > > and my theory so far is that X86_64 uses some currently unhandled > instruction set extensions like MMX, SSE, etc. (Not 3DNow! because we > have a dependency for that), for a fairly common operation
No it shouldn't. Only SSE users are in the (broken) MD RAID code
Most likely you don't decode REX correctly in some cases.
[haven't read the patch sorry]
=Andi
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