linux-kernel - Re: Opteron Rev E has a bug ... a locked instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier

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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:54:01 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Subject: Re: Opteron Rev E has a bug ... a locked  instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:56:05 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>On Monday 04 August 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz writes:
>>  > Hello,
>>  >
>>  > http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn-history/r48/trunk/src/base/=
>at
>>  >omicops-internals-x86.cc says
>>  >
>>  > "  // Opteron Rev E has a bug in which on very rare occasions a locked
>>  >   // instruction doesn't act as a read-acquire barrier if followed by a
>>  >   // non-locked read-modify-write instruction.  Rev F has this bug in
>>  >   // pre-release versions, but not in versions released to customers,
>>  >   // so we test only for Rev E, which is family 15, model 32..63
>>  > inclusive. if (strcmp(vendor, "AuthenticAMD") =3D=3D 0 &&       // AMD
>>  >       family =3D=3D 15 &&
>>  >       32 <=3D model && model <=3D 63) {
>>  >     AtomicOps_Internalx86CPUFeatures.has_amd_lock_mb_bug =3D true;
>>  >   } else {
>>  >     AtomicOps_Internalx86CPUFeatures.has_amd_lock_mb_bug =3D false;
>>  >   }
>>  > "
>>  >
>>  > does kernel have quirk/workaround for this? I'm looking at
>>  > arch/x86/kernel/cpu but I don't see workaround related to this (possib=
>ly
>>  > I'm overlooking).
>>
>> I can find no reference to this alleged RevE erratum in the
>> Athlon64/Opteron revision guide (25759.pdf).
>>
>> But if this bug is real then we need to know about it. Could
>> you ask the author of the code you quoted above to clarify?
>
>Got answer, opensolaris has some workarounds for this bug I still don't kno=
>w=20
>which errata # is that:
>
>http://groups.google.com/group/google-perftools/browse_thread/thread/3d1b78=
>d4a9db8c6e
>
>btw. I got info about this bug after hiting this problem:=20
>http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=3D26081

Thanks, found the Solaris code in question and the mysql discussion.
I'll dig deeper tomorrow.

/Mikael
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