Re: Duron kernel crash (i686 works)

[Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.no>]

VDA wrote:
> 
> >>         ...
> >>         kernel_fpu_end();
> >> +       from-=4096;
> >> +       to-=4096;
> >> +       if(memcmp(from,to,4096)!=0) {
> >> +               printk("Athlon bug!"); //add printout of from,to,...?
> >> +               memcpy(to,from,4096);
> >> +       }
> >> }
> 
> RJD> I then get 'Athlon bug!' Still oopses.
> 
> Waah! That means movntq's moved data to some other place in memory!
> memcmp detected that and memcpy fixed, but that 'other place' was
> corrupted and that's the cause of oops.
Well, not necessarily. It might be that data just hasn't "arrived" yet because
of the movntq instruction.

One thing that also puzzels me is that my is the fast_copy_page() routine laid
out like this :

		"2: movq (%0), %%mm0\n"
		"   movntq %%mm0, (%1)\n"
		"   movq 8(%0), %%mm1\n"
		"   movntq %%mm1, 8(%1)\n"
		"   movq 16(%0), %%mm2\n"
		"   movntq %%mm2, 16(%1)\n"
		"   movq 24(%0), %%mm3\n"
		"   movntq %%mm3, 24(%1)\n"
		"   movq 32(%0), %%mm4\n"
		"   movntq %%mm4, 32(%1)\n"
		"   movq 40(%0), %%mm5\n"
		"   movntq %%mm5, 40(%1)\n"
		"   movq 48(%0), %%mm6\n"
		"   movntq %%mm6, 48(%1)\n"
		"   movq 56(%0), %%mm7\n"
		"   movntq %%mm7, 56(%1)\n"

When it's more intuitively more effective to fill the registers with reads first
and then write it with "movntq" like this :

		"2: movq (%0), %%mm0\n"
		"   movq 8(%0), %%mm1\n"
		"   movq 16(%0), %%mm2\n"
		"   movq 24(%0), %%mm3\n"
		"   movq 32(%0), %%mm4\n"
		"   movq 40(%0), %%mm5\n"
		"   movq 48(%0), %%mm6\n"
		"   movq 56(%0), %%mm7\n"
		"   movntq %%mm0, (%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm1, 8(%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm2, 16(%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm3, 24(%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm4, 32(%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm5, 40(%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm6, 48(%1)\n"
		"   movntq %%mm7, 56(%1)\n"

Regards,
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