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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: discuss@x86-64.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:27:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610051927.27255.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051014550.3952@g5.osdl.org>


> Have you actually ever seen an alignment check in the kernel? 

No. It was me extrapolating from Marcus' report, but I apparently
didn't read the specification well enough.

> As far as I  
> know, the AC flag is only effective in user space, and anything else would 
> be in violation of the whole definition of the AC flag. The i486 manual 
> explicitly states that AC events are _only_ handled in ring3.
> 
> So I think these both are (a) misleading and (b) wrong.

Ok. Please drop them then.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-05 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-05 17:10 Please pull x86-64 bug fixes Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:31   ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:43     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:53       ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 19:29         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 19:42           ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:02             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 20:10               ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 22:45               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 22:52                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:07                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 23:21                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:36                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06  0:57                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06  1:29                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 11:03                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 16:07                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 16:19                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 22:01                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-06 22:31                       ` Duran, Leo
2006-10-06 23:06                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-07  5:23                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-07  2:20                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-08 20:59                           ` Duran, Leo
2006-10-08 22:42                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 22:00         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-05 21:44           ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-06 11:14             ` Alan Cox
2006-10-16 12:21               ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 17:27   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-10-05 22:59     ` [discuss] " Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 23:05       ` Andi Kleen

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