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Linux Beta Kernel 2.5.16 Out

Posted by michael on from the living-on-the-edge dept.

dipfan writes "The latest beta version of the Linux kernel 2.5.16 is out, with some comments by Linus here, who was kept 'personally somewhat busy' by 'the interesting Intel SMP-P4 TLB corruption bug, which ends up being due to some very funky asynchronous speculative TLB fill logic'. Woo hoo. Mirrors, etc." We haven't been keeping up with the 2.5.x series, but a slow Sunday is a good excuse to catch up.

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  1. Re:Shouldn't P4 fix have been #ifdef'ed? by VAXman · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it's a Linux bug not a P4 bug. The kernel was freeing page table memory before invalidating the TLB entries, so another processor was able to modify the entries which the originating processor then picked up. It affects all architectures, but was discovered only on P4, I would guess because the processor does more aggressive speculative page walks than other architectures.

  2. Re:OpenBSD 3.1 released today... by jeffehobbs · · Score: 5, Informative


    Not quite out yet, but watch this space.

    ~jeff

  3. Re:OpenBSD 3.1 released today... by the+Atomic+Rabbit · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not to mentioned gcc 3.1 being released a couple of days ago, and being buried in the Developers section...