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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/i386')
-rw-r--r-- | sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c b/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c index 66c5fed..e8210c2 100644 --- a/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c +++ b/sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c @@ -1303,6 +1303,24 @@ print_AMD_info(void) (amd_whcr & 0x0100) ? "Enable" : "Disable"); } } + + /* + * Opteron Rev E shows a bug as in very rare occasions a read memory + * barrier is not performed as expected if it is followed by a + * non-atomic read-modify-write instruction. + * As long as that bug pops up very rarely (intensive machine usage + * on other operating systems generally generates one unexplainable + * crash any 2 months) and as long as a model specific fix would be + * impratical at this stage, print out a warning string if the broken + * model and family are identified. + */ + if (CPUID_TO_FAMILY(cpu_id) == 0xf && CPUID_TO_MODEL(cpu_id) >= 0x20 && + CPUID_TO_MODEL(cpu_id) <= 0x3f) { + printf("WARNING: This architecture revision has known SMP " + "hardware bugs which may cause random instability\n"); + printf("WARNING: For details see: " + "http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11305\n"); + } } static void |