Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> In particular, does anybody have a buggy Pentium to test with the F0 0F
> lock-up bug? It _should_ be caught with the error-code test (it's a
> protection fault, not a non-present fault and thus the F0 0F case never
> enters the vmalloc path), but it's been several years since the thing..
>
> If anybody has such a beast, please try this kernel patch _and_ running
> the F0 0F bug-producing program (search for it on the 'net - it must be
> out there somewhere) to verify that the code still correctly handles that
> case.
>
I have a Thinkpad with a buggy pentium (see cat /proc/cpuinfo below) and
I tried running the F00F test program available from
http://lwn.net/2001/0329/a/ltp-f00f.php3 first on a 2.2.17 kernel that
I've been running for ages without problems I got this output:
Testing for proper f00f instruction handling.
SIGILL received from f00f instruction. Good.
Then I tried 2.4.4 with your patch applied and got the same output (and
no lockup), so according to that test program your patch does not break
the F00F handling code. :-)
If you want me to test other patches, just let me know and I'll be happy
to do so!
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : Mobile Pentium MMX
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 232.111
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 463.67
Best regards,
Jesper Juhl - juhl@eisenstein.dk
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