Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 01:39:09 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug |
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:23:20PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:17:10 -0800 > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I think this is a very very minor issue, I doubt anybody ever triggered > > it in real life with linux. > > It is said that the crashes cease when the `nopentium' option > is used, so it does appear that something is up. > > I does seem that the nVidia driver is usually involved. > > I think this is all "just so happens" personally, and all the that > turning off the large pages really does is change the timings so that > whatever bug is really present simply becomes a heisenbug.
My same wondering, however I wasn't sure how much the timing could really change to make the kernel bugs trigger.
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