On Llu, 2005-08-29 at 18:20 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > ways. Currently this code only allows for an additional flavor > of uncached access to physical memory addresses which should be hard > to abuse, and should raise no additional aliasing problems. No > attempt has been made to fix theoretical aliasing problems.
Even an uncached/cached alias causes random memory corruption or an MCE on x86 systems. In fact it can occur even for an alias not in theory touched by the CPU if it happens to prefetch into or speculate the address. Also be sure to read the PII Xeon errata - early PAT has a bug or two. Definitely a much needed improvement to the kernel though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
