From: David Sanders <linux@sandersweb.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't use NOPL on 32-bit cpu's because not all systems support it.
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:50:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809161350.31521.linux@sandersweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080916180022.5f57368b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 13:00, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Given that, we should either just rip this code out, or detect VPC
> > (how?). The latter option can be done post-.27, of course; if so, we
>
> Make the user pass a "vpcworkarounds" boot option...
Actually, you can pass noreplace-paravirt, but that is non-obvious to the
regular user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-16 15:59 [PATCH] x86: Don't use NOPL on 32-bit cpu's because not all systems support it David Sanders
2008-09-16 16:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-16 17:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-16 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-16 17:50 ` David Sanders [this message]
2008-09-16 17:48 ` David Sanders
2008-09-16 18:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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