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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:07:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?
Message-ID:  <tkrat.3c65225e2cd2f630@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4e53080c-4257-d3b6-a097-0d54602e0e62@sentex.net>
References:  <8e842dec-ade7-37d1-6bd8-856ea1a827ca@sentex.net> <8dcf6cc8fad788ac8168a4a9f392b02e@foolishgames.com> <23c1d162-dcd8-c422-3114-d70b65b6c271@sentex.net> <e2d004c63e414022ce48b5b50959c302@foolishgames.com> <00875e4d-740f-63f1-496c-6cda82b1a403@ingresso.co.uk> <tkrat.943da3fc20539e05@FreeBSD.org> <52744797-0606-44e7-72dd-242a6b56066a@digiware.nl> <tkrat.4540dd6d35bd55a1@FreeBSD.org> <4e53080c-4257-d3b6-a097-0d54602e0e62@sentex.net>

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On 22 Jan, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 1/21/2018 3:24 PM, Don Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> I have supplied a customer with a Ryzen5 and a 350MB motherboard.
>>> But he runs Windows 10, but I haven't heard him complain about anything 
>>> like this.
>>> But I'll ask him specific.
>> 
>> Only the BSDs were affected by the shared page issue.  I think Linux
>> already had a guard page.  I don't think Windows was affected by the
>> idle C-state issue.  I suspect it is caused by software not doing the
>> right thing during C-state transitions, but the publicly available
>> documentation from AMD is pretty lacking.  The random segfault issue is
>> primarily triggered by heavy parallel software build loads and how many
>> Windows users do that?
> 
> 
> Are all the AMD accomodations that DragonFly did in FreeBSD ?
> 
> http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-August/626190.html

We only lowered the top of user space by 4KB, which should be
sufficient, and we unmapped the boundary page.  The signal trampoline
was already in a separate page than the stack.




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