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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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