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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stable Kernel Team <stable@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] __copy_to_user_inatomic broken on non Pentium machines
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:41:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174851671.3892.2.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703251039170.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:14 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Environment: Pre Pentium systems, (boot_cpu_data.wp_works_ok == 0)
> 
> This shouldn't be "pre-pentium", afaik. WP-works-ok on i486 too. I think 
> only the original i386 had this bug ("feature").
>
> But I agree, it does seem to be broken on such machines (I assume you 
> don't actually have one, but just tested by forcing it by hand ;)

Yes, it's a genuine i386 embedded system and AFAIK the same feature is
available on 486 clones. i386 and Co are still in used in the embedded
space.

	tglx





  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-25 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-25  8:07 [BUG] __copy_to_user_inatomic broken on non Pentium machines Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-25 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-25 18:30   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-25 19:41   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-04-02 12:25   ` [PATCH] i386: fix file_read_actor() and pipe_read() for original i386 systems Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-02 12:34     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-13 23:06     ` Adrian Bunk

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