Re: Athlon PSE/AGP Bug

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:23:20PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:17:10 -0800
> 
>    Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>    > I think this is a very very minor issue, I doubt anybody ever triggered
>    > it in real life with linux.
>    
>    It is said that the crashes cease when the `nopentium' option
>    is used, so it does appear that something is up.
>    
>    I does seem that the nVidia driver is usually involved.
> 
> I think this is all "just so happens" personally, and all the that
> turning off the large pages really does is change the timings so that
> whatever bug is really present simply becomes a heisenbug.

My same wondering, however I wasn't sure how much the timing could
really change to make the kernel bugs trigger.

Andrea