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x86: fix prefetch workaround

some early Athlon XP's and Opterons generate bogus faults on prefetch
instructions. The workaround for this regressed over .24 - reinstate it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar 17 years ago
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      arch/x86/mm/fault.c

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arch/x86/mm/fault.c

@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ static int is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr,
 	unsigned char *max_instr;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX))
+	/* Catch an obscure case of prefetch inside an NX page: */
+	if ((__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX) && (error_code & 16))
 		return 0;
 #endif