> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> > We could add a printk to the #GP handler that alerts the reader that a
> > poisoned list is suspected, if we find the address pattern in one of the
> > registers.
>
> I wouldn't worry too much - it's going to be pretty visible anyway.
>
> The only thing I _would_ worry about is the AMD prefetch bug - some AMD
> cores raise a spurious page fault for prefetch instructions, and we ignore
> it.
>
> I _think_ that bug is a pure TLB issue and would never trigger for an
> address that doesn't do page fault handling at all because it gets caught
> in the "is the address valid" code, but it does make me go "Hmm".
>
> See
>
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/9/10/397
>
> from Rich Brunner. The AMD errata listing does say just page fault,
> and does talk about speculative TLB reloads, so I think we're all
> good.