[PATCH] Work around K8 errata on x86-64
K8 has an erratum (#100) that essentially causes some compat mode processes to fault occassionally. The issue can be worked around in the OS. It only applies to x86-64, in 32bit it is fine. This adds a check to the page fault handler that checks for addresses >4GB from compat mode. If they happen just return; the CPU will reexecute the instruction and the condition that caused the problem is gone. More details in Opteron/Athlon64 specification update on the AMD website. Also I removed a left over debugging printk in the prefetch handling code.
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