Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:28:39 +0200 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix x86 cpuid keys used in alternative_smp() |
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>> By hard-coding the cpuid keys for alternative_smp() rather than using >> the symbolic constant it turned out that incorrect values were used on >> both i386 (0x68 instead of 0x69) and x86-64 (0x66 instead of 0x68). > >Thanks. Applied. > >I wonder if that was the reason why the .fill misassembly the >2.16.91.0.5 (10.1) binutils commits (see recent discuss report from >Rafael) didn't cause crashes on UP machines. Do you have >an opinion on that?
That is well possible - I saw the mail, and I also wondered why this wouldn't result in a broken kernel.
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