Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin writes:

>*ahem*  You might want to read the first paragraph as well.  It is
>for situations where one _can't_ update one's BIOS.  I don't see why
>making it a tweakable kernel compile time know that is off by
>default would be so incredibly bad.  We have precedents already for
>this type of thing.  And yes, in this case, the CPU is not performing
>as advertised.

So far we have set the limit at hardware being used correctly.

Either way, this patch was not the correct way to fix this particular
erratum.

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