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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:21:05 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org>, sos@freebsd.dk, marks@ripe.net, ktsin@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT 
Message-ID:  <20020824012105.F357A2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D665B5D.468BD572@mindspring.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Martin Blapp wrote:
> > > Just like Microsoft: they disable the PSE, because they have not
> > > spent the ~$16,000 worth of time figuring out the root cause.
> > 
> > But what is this ?
> 
> [ ... patch ... ]
> 
> Unrelated.  The SMP code was not setting global flags on APs; this
> fixes that.

But you said they do not use PSE in order to work around the bug.  But their
kernel source code says otherwise.

" > Just to have asked. How does Linux solve this problem ?

Just like Microsoft: they disable the PSE, because they have not
spent the ~$16,000 worth of time figuring out the root cause.

-- Terry"

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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