[PATCH] 3DNOW optimization fix

From: Anders Peter Fugmann (afu@fugmann.dhs.org)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 18:40:23 EST

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As noted by Andreas Franck, the assembler instruction for
write prefetch is mistakenly a read prefetch. Below is for
linux-2.4.8-ac11 that corrects the error.

Regards
Anders Fugmann

--
--- linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h~ Sun Aug 26 01:18:12 2001
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h  Sun Aug 26 01:22:36 2001
@@ -501,7 +502,7 @@
   extern inline void prefetchw(const void *x)
   {
-        __asm__ __volatile__ ("prefetch (%0)" : : "r"(x));
+        __asm__ __volatile__ ("prefetchw (%0)" : : "r"(x));
   }
   #define spin_lock_prefetch(x)  prefetchw(x)
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