From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Remove cmpxchg from i386 NMI nesting code
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:23:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32f96f44-00a6-4341-a87c-888e0debcebf@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1206110120190.29081@eddie.linux-mips.org>
Just use a VM or a simulator.
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>> "Idiot! Why the f*ck are you running i386 on your nice shiny new
>x86_64
>> machine, with Umpteen Gigs of RAM. Boot a x86_64 kernel for Christ
>sake
>> and get your full potential. Your i386 userspace will still work just
>> fine on it. You're like one of those 75 year old retirees that can
>> finally buy a Porsche just to drive it 10 miles per hour below the
>speed
>> limit with a line of cars behind them!"
>
>:) Yeah, if only native x86_64 could run vm86 so as to ask the VGA
>BIOS
>to unbotch the graphics card that shot itself into the foot for
>whatever
>reason, sigh...
>
> Maciej
--
Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-11 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-08 13:52 [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][3.6] x86: cr2 and cmpxchg issues of NMI Steven Rostedt
2012-06-08 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86: Save cr2 in NMI in case NMIs take a page fault Steven Rostedt
2012-06-08 13:52 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: Remove cmpxchg from i386 NMI nesting code Steven Rostedt
2012-06-08 16:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-08 16:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-08 17:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-08 17:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-08 17:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-08 17:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-08 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-08 18:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-11 0:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-06-11 2:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-06-11 3:14 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-06-11 3:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-08 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: Save cr2 in NMI in case NMIs take a page fault (for i386) Steven Rostedt
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=32f96f44-00a6-4341-a87c-888e0debcebf@email.android.com \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=macro@linux-mips.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.