Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?)

Hello,

> > >They prevent the usage of 4M pages. It's a CPU bug that will cause data
> > >corruption if enabled.
> > >
> > >Terry Lambert (at least) knows the details.
> >
> > I _really_ doubt that.
> >
> > Please treat all information from Terry as highly suspect, he has not
> > been in touch with our source code for years.
>
> Be that as it may, it was still he that suggested those options and
> claims that he knows more. On my machine at work, a 1.8GHz P4, those
> options give me a useable stable machine and without it I get signal
> 10 and 11's left,right and center. That machine is building a snap
> every night and has an uptime of 37 days because that is when I last
> updated it.

the thread i found in -current archives suggested that these flags work
around an amd-specific issue. now you say that a p4-based machine also
needs them to run stable.

i am wondering more and more: why are these options not in GENERIC ?!?
...if someone knows what he's doing he can always throw them out again.

(just like back in the day, dma was not enabled by default...)

Heiko

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