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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch
> I'm a bit confused as to what significance the faulting address has btw:
> kernel code can raise prefetch faults against addresses which are less
> than, and presumably greater than TASK_SIZE.

Currently it can't - hlist either prefetches to zero or to a valid
address and everybody else using prefetch should also use valid addresses.

But it's conceivable that future kernels make more extensive use of
prefetch.

e.g. x86-64 hit it because it has prefetch is copy_{from/to}_user /csum_copy_*
and everybody can pass arbitary addresses to that.

-Andi
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