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SubjectRe: Opteron Rev E has a bug ... a locked instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn-history/r48/trunk/src/base/atomicops-internals-x86.cc
> says
>
> " // Opteron Rev E has a bug in which on very rare occasions a locked
> // instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier if followed by a
> // non-locked read-modify-write instruction. Rev F has this bug in
> // pre-release versions, but not in versions released to customers,
> // so we test only for Rev E, which is family 15, model 32..63 inclusive.
> if (strcmp(vendor, "AuthenticAMD") == 0 && // AMD
> family == 15 &&
> 32 <= model && model <= 63) {
> AtomicOps_Internalx86CPUFeatures.has_amd_lock_mb_bug = true;
> } else {
> AtomicOps_Internalx86CPUFeatures.has_amd_lock_mb_bug = false;
> }
> "
>
> does kernel have quirk/workaround for this? I'm looking at arch/x86/kernel/cpu
> but I don't see workaround related to this (possibly I'm overlooking).

I can find no reference to this alleged RevE erratum in the
Athlon64/Opteron revision guide (25759.pdf).

But if this bug is real then we need to know about it. Could
you ask the author of the code you quoted above to clarify?

/Mikael


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