Re: Write allocation broken on AMD K6.y

From: Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 19:33:33 EST


>
>
> All,
> The AMD pdf says that the memory range is in bits 7-1, though
> I believe the current code doesn't honour this.
>
> The fix is as follows:
>
> --- setup.c~ Tue Mar 28 00:39:19 2000
> +++ setup.c Tue Mar 28 00:39:44 2000
> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@
> rdmsr(0xC0000082, l, h);
> if((l&0x0000FFFF)==0)
> {
> - l=(1<<0)|(mbytes/4);
> + l=(1<<0)|((mbytes/4)<<1);
> save_flags(flags);
> __cli();
> __asm__ __volatile__ ("wbinvd": : :"memory");
>
>
>
> The same problem exists in 2.2.15pre15 and 2.3.99pre3.
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Dave.
>

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