Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:26:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Anyway, one other thing that makes me worry is the fact that Gene 
> apparently has a K7. One of the things AMD has gotten wrong several times 
> is prefetching, and it so happens that the dcache code is one of the users 
> of the prefetch instruction. prude_dcache() in particular.
> 
> So I'm also entertaining the notion that there's an actual prefetch data 
> corruption, not just the known AMD bug with occasional spurious page 
> faults. Who else has seen the problem? What CPU's are involved?
> 
> 		Linus

Assuming that what I was seeing was the same problem...

chris@peace:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Celeron (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 1002.487
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1982.46


BTW, a recent oops from wli looked similar, but I don't think he's
spoken up in this thread.

He seems busy tracking down other things.

-chris