On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> Anyone with a dual x86, please give this a quick run. I want to hear
> about any failures (it'll abort with "state was 1!") and if you have a
> PPro with a stepping of less than 9 (which have been rumored to have a
> problem with this), tell me about your successes as well. Send me a
> copy of your /proc/cpuinfo too. If we can get a solid set of success
> reports for early P6s and no failures elsewhere, perhaps we can get
> this faster locking method into the kernel.
With the new program, with MOVB defined, completes successfully, with MOVB
undefined, completes successfully. Both works. Hmm! Using gcc 2.95.2,
glibc 2.1.3 w/linuxthreads.
Here's my /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 1
model name : Pentium Pro
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 166.194480
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
bogomips : 165.89
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 1
model name : Pentium Pro
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 166.194480
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
bogomips : 165.89
Cheers,
Alex
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