On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:15:17AM +0100, 0 wrote: > Hi, > > dmesg indicates my CPU has the Pentium F0 0F bug... > > Initializing CPU#0 > CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c041e000 soft=c041f000 > PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes) > Detected 232.300 MHz processor. > Using tsc for high-res timesource > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) > Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) > Memory: 124684k/131072k available (2212k kernel code, 5888k reserved, > 752k data, 200k init, 0k highmem) > Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. > Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 465.42 BogoMIPS > (lpj=930843) > Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized > SELinux: Disabled at boot. > Capability LSM initialized > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 > CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 00000000 00000000 > *Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.* > CPU: After all inits, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > > > But looking at /proc/cpuinfo indicates the opposite: > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 5 > model : 4 > model name : Pentium MMX > stepping : 3 > cpu MHz : 232.300 > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > *f00f_bug : no* > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 1 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx > bogomips : 465.42 > > Think there may be a bug in cpuinfo, because I'm sure I remember it used > to say yes for the f00f_bug. > > Any thoughts? Please file a bugzilla on this. And mention which kernel version you're running. (Be sure to try the newest too). Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
