Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 14:48:17 EST

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Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After removing my head from my a**, I revised the code that checks
> the memory copy in the fast_page_copy routine. The machine then
> proceeded
> not to stop at my panic, but I got my "normal" oopses. I then had an
> idea and removed all the prefetch instructions from the beginning of the
> routine and tried the resultin kernel. I now have no crashes.
> What could this mean?

What are your "normal" oopses?

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