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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:22:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0630CC.7050001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120105182846.GQ11715@one.firstfloor.org>

On 01/05/2012 10:28 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> Otherwise, is there any rationale for this sort of lurking bug?
> 
> Most (all?) of the CPUs I cared about when writing that code had 
> bugs with string instructions and >4GB.
> 

Is that still true, and do we even use string instructions still on
those old CPUs?  Jan's fixes don't introduce any additional delays in
the non-string-instruction paths.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-05 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-05 14:04 x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant Jan Beulich
2012-01-05 15:27 ` hpanvin@gmail.com
2012-01-05 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-05 23:22   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-01-06  1:47     ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-06  2:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-06  7:22         ` Jan Beulich
2012-01-06  9:49         ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-06 10:22           ` Jan Beulich
2012-01-06 10:37             ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-06 10:50               ` Jan Beulich
2012-01-06 11:08                 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-06 12:25                   ` Jan Beulich
2012-01-06 19:44                     ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-06 23:12                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-06 11:08           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-06 20:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-01-09  8:29   ` Jan Beulich

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