Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:08:45 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:54:06PM -0700, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > > I think we should fix up userspace. > What do you mean by this? Patch user code at runtime (it's much more > complex than it sounds) or remove prefetch instructions from userspace?
No, just make sure that userspace doesn't see the exceptions that the errata will produce in obscure cases. It is all explained in several threads about this. Search for "Andi Kleen" and "prefetch". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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