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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.6.9-rc2-mm3] perfctr ppc32 preliminary interrupt support
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On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 10:25, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:49:45 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Be careful that some G4's have a bug which can cause a
> > perf monitor interrupt to crash your kernel :( Basically, the
> > problem is if any of TAU or PerfMon interrupt happens at the
> > same time as a DEC interrupt, some revs of the CPU can get
> > confused and lose the previous exception state.
>
> Oh I'm very much aware of that erratum. That's why I never
> even tried implementing this while I only had a 750/G3.
> The error appears to affect all classic 750s, all 7400s,
> and early 7410s. Late 7410s and all 744x/745x are Ok.
> I don't know if IBM's recent 750s (GX/FX) have the error,
> but their 750CXs do.

Oh, interesting... I wasn't sure about the G3s, though iirc,
we discovered the error in the first place with MOL on an old G3
indeed...

Ben.




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