From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.39-rc3
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:31:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA7054B.1060203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110414091137.GC9248@elte.hu>
On 04/14/2011 02:11 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> I'd strongly suggest we revert back to the old and proven allocation order, as
> long as it results in valid layouts. Even if we figure out this particular
> GART/GTT assumption there might be a dozen others in other types of hardware.
>
Yes, but we might also be hiding a real bug which bites other hardware.
We have found real and very serious bugs in the kernel this way before
-- things where drivers scribble over random memory and allocation order
exposed the failure in a predictable way, as opposed to random crashes.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-14 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-12 0:40 Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 9:02 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-12 14:15 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-12 18:44 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 1:27 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-13 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-13 17:21 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 19:26 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 19:24 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 19:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 19:34 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 20:48 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 21:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 23:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 0:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-14 2:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 2:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 4:03 ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-14 9:36 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-14 8:09 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-14 8:09 ` Alan Cox
2011-04-15 13:11 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 13:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-15 14:33 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 16:11 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-15 15:46 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 16:11 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-16 16:35 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 16:35 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 18:54 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-16 18:54 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-17 14:09 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-18 1:12 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-18 15:23 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-18 15:23 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-18 15:29 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-18 15:33 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-18 15:59 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-04-18 16:35 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-15 14:04 ` Andreas Herrmann
2011-04-15 14:28 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 14:16 ` Alexandre Demers
2011-04-15 14:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 14:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 18:59 ` Alexandre Demers
2011-04-15 19:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-15 19:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-15 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-16 12:01 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 12:01 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 12:00 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-16 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-16 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-16 0:03 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, amd: Disable GartTlbWlkErr when BIOS forgets it tip-bot for Joerg Roedel
2011-05-06 21:17 ` Linux 2.6.39-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2011-04-13 21:50 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 21:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-04-13 22:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 22:22 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14 8:59 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-13 19:48 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-14 1:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14 1:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14 2:07 ` Dave Airlie
2011-04-14 6:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-14 8:56 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-14 9:07 ` Dave Airlie
2011-04-14 9:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-14 14:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-04-14 14:28 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-14 21:09 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-14 21:34 ` Alex Deucher
2011-04-15 6:50 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-15 14:49 ` Andreas Herrmann
2011-04-15 8:26 ` Michel Dänzer
2011-04-15 8:26 ` Michel Dänzer
2011-04-15 8:55 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-04-12 19:09 ` Dave Jones
2011-04-12 19:21 ` Dave Jones
2011-04-12 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-12 20:13 ` Dave Jones
2011-04-14 8:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-04-18 22:57 ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-18 23:02 ` Dave Jones
2011-04-18 23:14 ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-19 11:42 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-19 8:23 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2011-04-19 8:37 ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-04-19 9:55 ` Kay Sievers
2011-04-12 20:20 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-04-12 20:27 ` Karel Zak
2011-04-12 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 20:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-04-14 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-15 4:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-20 20:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-04-12 21:21 Alexandre Demers
2011-04-13 4:32 George Spelvin
2011-04-13 14:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-14 18:28 ` Pavel Machek
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