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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:05:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42535FFF.4080503@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3PxjH-812-3@gated-at.bofh.it>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2005-04-02 at 05:50, Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
>>I'm wondering if one does a ton of these cache-bypassing stores whether 
>>something gets hosed because of that. Not sure what that could be 
>>though. I don't imagine the chipset is involved with any of that on the 
>>Athlon 64 - either the CPU or RAM seems the most likely suspect to me
> 
> 
> The glibc version is essentially the "perfect" copy function for the
> CPU. If you have any bus/memory problems or chipset bugs it will bite
> you.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to track this further? It seems 
fairly clear what circumstances are causing it, but as for figuring out 
what's at fault..

-- 
Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <3OGIo-7oY-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <3OGIo-7oY-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <3OGIo-7oY-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <3OIh7-cc-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <3OITV-AR-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <3PxjH-812-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-06  4:05               ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-04-06  7:02                 ` AMD64 Machine hardlocks when using memset Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-04-06  9:31                   ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-04-06 10:59                 ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-04-06 11:15                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-06 11:22                   ` Philip Lawatsch
     [not found] <3NZDp-4yY-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <3NZN4-4EZ-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <3O2rK-6MU-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <3O34n-7oN-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <3O4tp-8tL-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-01  1:33         ` Robert Hancock
     [not found] ` <3OmgF-6HV-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <3OmgF-6HV-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <3Oy8m-74-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-02  2:32       ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-02  4:11         ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-02  4:50           ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-04 10:45             ` Alan Cox
2005-04-06  8:47             ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found] <3NTHD-8ih-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <3NVqb-1iK-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-03-31  4:32   ` Robert Hancock
2005-03-31  4:38 ` Robert Hancock
2005-03-31  7:25   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-03-31  8:15     ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-31  9:37       ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-03-31 10:15         ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-31  7:41   ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-31 11:40     ` Mikael Pettersson
2005-03-31 18:47       ` Paul Jackson
     [not found] ` <3O99L-40N-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-01  4:37   ` Robert Hancock
2005-04-01 10:41     ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-01 17:27     ` Ray Lee
2005-04-01 19:14       ` Philip Lawatsch
2005-03-30 22:04 Philip Lawatsch
2005-03-31  0:05 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-03-31 14:45 ` Stelian Pop

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