CentOS - May 2007 - data corruption on AMD AM2 systems with 4GB of RAM or more

Anybody know if the fix for the incorrect kernel behaviour that leads to 
data corruption will be available for RHEL4/5 kernels?

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.

I searched for the commit id in the Redhat bugzilla, and found it for 
RHEL5: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238709. That 
bug says the fix has been backported and is in RHEL5 kernel 
2.6.18-18.el5. But I don't see anything about backporting to RHEL4.

Dan

Feizhou wrote:
> Anybody know if the fix for the incorrect kernel behaviour that leads to 
> data corruption will be available for RHEL4/5 kernels?
Is the bug still triggered if the system is running the 32 bit OS 
instead of 64 bit?

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