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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:39:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Atomic breakage?
Message-ID:  <200101171839.NAA19379@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010117102803.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <53512.979753444@critter> <XFMail.010117102803.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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<<On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:28:03 -0800 (PST), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> said:

> person was referring to:  on Pentiums with stepping < 0xc, a cmpxchg8b that
> crosses a page boundary triggers an illegel opcode fault rather than a page
> fault if the second page is missing.

This is (part of) the famous `F00F bug'.

-GAWollman



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