Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:33:55 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test4: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> |
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote: >> > >> > kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual >> address 00000000 ... >> > kernel: EIP is at find_inode_fast+0x1a/0x60 >> > ... >> > model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ >> > ... >> >> You've been bitten by the athlon-prefetch(0)-goes-oops problem. >> >> Nobody seems to be working this, so I'll be sending the below in to Linus. > > Let's not. If this goes in the Athlon users will get bad performance, > reliable operation, and no one will blame anything but the Athlon... If it > keeps oopsing hopefully people will complain and it will get fixed. > > Taking out features instead of fixing them is a bad president, this is not a > driver for an obsolete ISA card, this is a performance boost for a very > current CPU. I'm surprised AMD hasn't looked at it themselves.
Is this the same issue as http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106080170017645&w=2 in which AMD said, "Let us get back to you, ok?" on Aug. 13?
~Randy
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