Re: [BUG] __copy_to_user_inatomic broken on non Pentium machines

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:14 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Environment: Pre Pentium systems, (boot_cpu_data.wp_works_ok == 0)
> 
> This shouldn't be "pre-pentium", afaik. WP-works-ok on i486 too. I think 
> only the original i386 had this bug ("feature").
>
> But I agree, it does seem to be broken on such machines (I assume you 
> don't actually have one, but just tested by forcing it by hand ;)

Yes, it's a genuine i386 embedded system and AFAIK the same feature is
available on 486 clones. i386 and Co are still in used in the embedded
space.

	tglx




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