From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 23 18:21: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6997037B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2715E43E3B for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F357A2A7D6; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Martin Blapp , Bosko Milekic , Julian Elischer , Don Lewis , sos@freebsd.dk, marks@ripe.net, ktsin@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT In-Reply-To: <3D665B5D.468BD572@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:21:05 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020824012105.F357A2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message