> prefetch 320(%0) can fetch memory behind the end of the source page.
> Perhaps it accesses memory in the ISA hole, or beyond the end of memory?
> Could you post the e820 map from dmesg?
>
> It's possible to build manually a memory map.
> Could you build one with wide margins from "dangerous" areas? (untested:
> mem=exactmap mem=620k@0 mem=<your mem in MB-2>M@1M)
>
> Then boot with prefetch enabled.
That might not be the actual bug but for rev 1 Athlon it is a real bug. The
first step athlons have an unfortunate problem in that will prefetch
memory marked uncachable and corrupt their caches with it.
Arjan - care to unroll the tail 320 bytes of copying from the main loop ?
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