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From: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
To: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.no>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, VDA@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: Athlon: Try this (was: Re: Athlon bug stomping #2)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:08:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010916100834.A590@gondor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292125035.20010914214303@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <E15i2Bp-00017m-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010916035207.C7542@ppc.vc.cvut.cz> <3BA4530D.A3378F41@scali.no>
In-Reply-To: <3BA4530D.A3378F41@scali.no>

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:21:49AM +0200, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> I also have a question; if "movntq; sfence" type of memory copy can cause data
> corruption in kernel space, it can in theory also do so in user space right ?
> So, if I'm right this bug could also be on machines running a 2.2 kernel with
> userspace programs using 3DNow (or SSE even) instructions.

Sure. I did crash a computer running an old kernel (not 2.2 but 
2.4.0-testX without the optimised fast_copy_page) from a non-privileged
user space program containing the same code as the optimised fast_copy_page.

Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-16  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <372BFCD7961@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
2001-09-14 18:43 ` Athlon: Try this (was: Re: Athlon bug stomping #2) VDA
2001-09-14 23:16   ` Alan Cox
2001-09-15 17:44     ` Nicholas Knight
2001-09-15 18:02       ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-15 23:23       ` Alan Cox
2001-09-16  1:52     ` Petr Vandrovec
2001-09-16  7:21       ` Steffen Persvold
2001-09-16  8:08         ` Jan Niehusmann [this message]
2001-09-19  3:47           ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-09-16 11:02       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-16 13:53         ` Alan Cox
2001-09-16 13:50           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-16 14:47             ` Alan Cox
2001-09-16 17:01               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-09-16 16:52           ` Roberto Jung Drebes
2001-09-17  0:58             ` Petr Vandrovec
2001-09-17  1:37               ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-09-17 14:59                 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-18 11:27       ` jury gerold
2001-09-20 23:38   ` bill davidsen
2001-09-14  7:34 Athlon bug stomping #2 Roberto Jung Drebes
2001-09-14  8:27 ` Athlon: Try this (was: Re: Athlon bug stomping #2) Roberto Jung Drebes
2001-09-14  9:26   ` Jeff Lightfoot
2001-09-14 18:19   ` Byron Stanoszek
2001-09-15 18:00     ` Liakakis Kostas
2001-09-15 20:28       ` VDA
2001-09-15  7:15   ` brian
2001-09-19  1:30     ` brian
2001-09-16 21:53   ` Carsten Leonhardt
2001-09-19  3:55     ` Dan Hollis

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