[CentOS] data corruption on AMD AM2 systems with 4GB of RAM or more

Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer at gmail.com
Wed May 30 23:51:35 UTC 2007


On 5/29/07, Dan Halbert <halbert at bbn.com> wrote:
> Feizhou wrote:
> > Anybody know if the fix for the incorrect kernel behaviour that leads
> > to data corruption will be available for RHEL4/5 kernels?
> >
> I assume you are talking about the "GART pages must be uncacheable bug",
> which affects AMD processors.
>
> The kernel bug is http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7768, which
> has now been closed after a patch was submitted.

Could this be the same bug as

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1774

??  We are experiencing the exact symptoms described in centos/1774 on
 dual-CPU Opteron system with 16GB RAM.



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