Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261422AbVCMSv0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:51:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261423AbVCMSv0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:51:26 -0500 Received: from h151_115.u.wavenet.pl ([217.79.151.115]:18064 "EHLO alpha.polcom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261422AbVCMSvX (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:51:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:52:23 +0100 (CET) From: Grzegorz Kulewski To: Stas Sergeev Cc: Alan Cox , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds , Petr Vandrovec , Denis Vlasenko , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [patch] x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug In-Reply-To: <42348474.7040808@aknet.ru> Message-ID: References: <42348474.7040808@aknet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 23 On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hi Alan. > > Attached patch works around the corruption > of the high word of the ESP register, which > is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug > triggers only when the one is using the > 16bit stack segment, and is described here: > http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/specupdt/27287402.PDF Does the bug also egsist on AMD CPU's? Does the patch add anything to kernels compiled for AMD CPU's? Thanks, Grzegorz Kulewski - 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/