Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267186AbTGaTOm (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:14:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267378AbTGaTOm (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:14:42 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:12943 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267186AbTGaTOl (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:14:41 -0400 Subject: Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386 From: Alan Cox To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Petr Vandrovec , lkml In-Reply-To: <20030731183730.GA7803@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030730135623.GA1873@lug-owl.de> <20030730181006.GB21734@fs.tum.de> <20030730183033.GA970@matchmail.com> <20030730184529.GE21734@fs.tum.de> <20030730202822.GG1873@lug-owl.de> <20030730215032.GA18892@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <1059606394.10505.24.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030731151020.GF6410@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <1059667304.16608.47.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030731183730.GA7803@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059678643.17459.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 31 Jul 2003 20:10:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 554 Lines: 12 On Iau, 2003-07-31 at 19:37, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I wouldn't be surprised if even real CPUs mis-decode when there's a > concurrent DMA into the area they are reading instructions from! :) I believe there is a PIII errata about putting an instruction across a memory type boundary and executingit in a loop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/