Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261253AbTH2OR0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:17:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261252AbTH2ORY (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:17:24 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:46000 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261244AbTH2ORW (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:17:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:17:10 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test4: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton From: Hollis Blanchard In-Reply-To: <20030828131019.69a9f3b9.akpm@osdl.org> Message-Id: <7AB2E883-DA2B-11D7-BFD3-000A95A0560C@us.ibm.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 27 On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 15:10 US/Central, Andrew Morton wrote: > > --- 25/include/asm-i386/processor.h~disable-athlon-prefetch 2003-08-23 > 13:48:16.000000000 -0700 > +++ 25-akpm/include/asm-i386/processor.h 2003-08-23 13:48:16.000000000 > -0700 > @@ -578,6 +578,8 @@ static inline void rep_nop(void) > #define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH > extern inline void prefetch(const void *x) > { > + if (cpu_data[0].x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) > + return; > alternative_input(ASM_NOP4, > "prefetchnta (%1)", > X86_FEATURE_XMM, Without a comment explaining the problem? -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center - 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/