From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:06:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3llfuj4bp.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2znJS-5Pm-25@gated-at.bofh.it> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:10:15 +0200")
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> The question is, does any of the Intel (or AMD) docs
> say that the CPU cache has to be write-back flushed when setting MTRRs,
> or were those calls only done out of paranoia?
Both the Intel and AMD docs require the cache flush for MTRR
caching attribute changes.
At least in pageattr (which is related) i know of cases where
not doing them caused data corruption in real loads.
-Andi
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2004-08-31 23:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2004-08-31 23:10 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Andi Kleen
2004-09-01 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
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2004-09-01 17:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 15:21 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-09-02 22:24 ` Ingo Molnar
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2004-09-01 14:37 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-09-01 19:31 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 20:10 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 15:17 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 17:20 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:09 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02 16:59 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-09-02 17:50 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 18:19 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:02 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-08-31 18:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 12:46 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-30 22:04 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-31 6:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 19:13 Mark_H_Johnson
2004-08-30 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 8:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02 6:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 17:52 [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q0 Lee Revell
2004-08-28 19:44 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 20:10 ` Daniel Schmitt
2004-08-28 20:31 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q3 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 21:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 23:51 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 2:35 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 5:43 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q4 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 9:06 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 14:25 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-30 18:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:23 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 19:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:45 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 6:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 6:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 23:03 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 15:52 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-01 21:15 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 21:30 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:21 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:47 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:34 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:41 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01 1:43 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 2:30 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 7:27 ` Lee Revell
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