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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	richard.brunner@amd.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	zwane@linuxpower.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:25:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F672B55.3000600@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.96.1030916094748.26515B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com



Bill Davidsen wrote:

> 
> If the fixup were not in place, would it be useful to emit a warning
> like "you have booted a non-Athlon kernel on an Athlon process, user
> programs may get unexpected page faults." That's in init code, hopefully
> there is no critical size issue there, I assume, other than how large a
> kernel can be booted by the boot loader.
> 

How many bytes would that code require?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15 16:21 [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata richard.brunner
2003-09-15 19:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 11:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 13:30   ` Dave Jones
2003-09-16 13:52     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 15:25       ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-09-16 16:53         ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 17:22         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 17:23       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-18  7:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-18 14:05   ` Dave Jones
2003-09-18 15:56     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-18 17:34   ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-16  2:23 richard.brunner
2003-09-15 20:20 Nakajima, Jun
2003-09-15 20:03 Nakajima, Jun
2003-09-15 19:51 richard.brunner
2003-09-16  0:01 ` David Lang
2003-09-16  0:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 11:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 13:46   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 17:21     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-15 19:34 John Bradford
2003-09-15 19:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 19:19 John Bradford
     [not found] <200309150632.h8F6WnHb000589@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <1063611650.2674.1.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-09-15 18:29   ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-15 14:21 John Bradford
2003-09-15 12:43 John Bradford
2003-09-15 18:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 12:28 Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-15 18:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 11:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-15 11:46 John Bradford
2003-09-15 12:38 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 13:46   ` Chris Meadors
2003-09-15 14:00     ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-16 15:06   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-16 15:24     ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 10:54 John Bradford
2003-09-15 10:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 13:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 18:44   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15  9:39 John Bradford
2003-09-15  9:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15  8:31 John Bradford
2003-09-15  8:32 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 20:51   ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-15  6:32 John Bradford
2003-09-15  7:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 12:02   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 11:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 20:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-16  0:26   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-12 21:24 John Bradford
2003-09-11 17:17 richard.brunner
2003-09-13 16:54 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-11 17:14 richard.brunner
2003-09-11 17:09 richard.brunner
2003-09-11  4:55 richard.brunner
2003-09-11 16:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-12 14:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
     [not found] <uqD5.3BI.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-11  4:14 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11  4:58   ` dada1
2003-09-11  5:11     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11  5:58       ` dada1
2003-09-11  3:43 Nakajima, Jun
2003-09-11  4:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-11  0:56 Update on AMD Athlon/Opteron/Athlon64 Prefetch Errata richard.brunner
2003-09-11  1:27 ` [PATCH] 2.6 workaround for Athlon/Opteron prefetch errata Andi Kleen
2003-09-11  1:44   ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-11  1:47     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:15       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 14:26         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:34           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 14:58             ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 15:06               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 20:08               ` bill davidsen
2003-09-11 19:56             ` bill davidsen
2003-09-11 20:44               ` Alan Cox
2003-09-11 21:29                 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-11 21:38                 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-12 17:32             ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-12 17:56               ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 17:59                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12 18:22                   ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12 18:28                     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 18:39                       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12 18:45                       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-12 18:48                       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-12 19:07                         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 19:05                       ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-12 19:30                         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-12 19:58                           ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-12 20:00                           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-09-15  0:15                           ` bill davidsen
2003-09-14 23:51                       ` bill davidsen
2003-09-14 23:49                     ` bill davidsen
2003-09-14 23:47                 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-15  1:02                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-09-15  2:08                     ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15  3:55                     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15  7:45                       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 12:11                         ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-15 13:48                           ` Alan Cox
2003-09-15 18:50                             ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-12 18:03               ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-11 13:54   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-11 14:01     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:14       ` Dave Jones
2003-09-11 14:29         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:14     ` Alan Cox
2003-09-11 14:24       ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 14:28         ` Dave Jones
2003-09-11 14:32           ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 20:14         ` bill davidsen
2003-09-11 16:58   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 17:05     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 17:32       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 17:39         ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 17:48           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 18:18             ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-11 18:59               ` Jamie Lokier

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