Brown paperbag time. I forgot to take the modrm byte in account
with the prefetch patch replacement. With 3.2 it worked because
it used the right registers in my configuration.
But gcc 2.96 uses a different register in __dpath and the prefetch becomes
4 bytes with modrm and the original nop needs to be as long as that too.
If your machine BUG()s in apply_alternatives at booting
or module loading you need this patch.
Linus please apply.
-Andi
Index: linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/linux-2.5/include/asm-i386/processor.h,v
retrieving revision 1.48
diff -u -u -r1.48 processor.h
--- linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h 30 Apr 2003 14:32:05 -0000 1.48
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/processor.h 30 Apr 2003 22:48:26 -0000
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH
extern inline void prefetch(const void *x)
{
- alternative_input(ASM_NOP3,
+ alternative_input(ASM_NOP4,
"prefetchnta (%1)",
X86_FEATURE_XMM,
"r" (x));
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@
spinlocks to avoid one state transition in the cache coherency protocol. */
extern inline void prefetchw(const void *x)
{
- alternative_input(ASM_NOP3,
+ alternative_input(ASM_NOP4,
"prefetchw (%1)",
X86_FEATURE_3DNOW,
"r" (x));
-
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