Attilio Rao 06db609d4a Opteron rev E family of processor expose a bug where, in very rare
ocassions, memory barriers semantic is not honoured by the hardware
itself. As a result, some random breakage can happen in uninvestigable
ways (for further explanation see at the content of the commit itself).

As long as just a specific familly is bugged of an entire architecture
is broken, a complete fix-up is impratical without harming to some
extents the other correct cases.
Considering that (and considering the frequency of the bug exposure)
just print out a warning message if the affected machine is identified.

Pointed out by:	Samy Al Bahra <sbahra at repnop dot org>
Help on wordings by:	jeff
MFC:	3 days
2009-11-04 01:32:59 +00:00
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