From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761294AbXEJMoe (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758580AbXEJMoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:44:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:38857 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758115AbXEJMoR (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:44:17 -0400 To: device-mapper development Cc: Alasdair G Kergon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [2.6.22 PATCH 22/26] dm: bio list helpers References: <20070508194845.GC24114@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20070508174159.7d78a275.akpm@linux-foundation.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 10 May 2007 15:41:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070508174159.7d78a275.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > > I have this vague memory from a long time ago that one particular CPU type > wants to go oops when prefetching from an invalid address. AMD K7/K8, but we got a generic workaround for a long time. -Andi