Re: [coLinux-devel] Filesystem corruption in 0.7.1 autobuild snapshots?

[Nuno L. <ml-...@xp...>]

[27-06-2005 2:42, colinux-ri escreveu]
> Ah ha!  I figured it out.  If I set the processor type in "make menuconfig"
> to "Athlon/Duron/K7", the kernel will thrash my filesystem and I get all
> sorts of funny errors (segfaults and such).  This happens with the vanilla
> kernel as well as Gentoo's heavily patched kernel.
> 
> Does anyone know why this would happen?

I confess I don't know, but could be related to the way context switches
into kernel mode are handled in the linux instance (the AMD CPU has a
different "preferred" CPU instruction to accomplish this, iirc).

Someone has better experience with this?


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas