Re: [PATCH 0/4] some kvm-kmod issues

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Zachary Amsden wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 05:28 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>> I found some issues with kvm-kmod from recently pulled tree on F13
>> (2.6.33) kernel.  I am not 100% sure the version numbers are right in
>> all of these fixes, but at least it compiles and seems to run VMs again.
>>
>> The FPU change and the iommu change are, well, rather scary.  They
>> could use some eyes and suggestions.
>>
>> Zach
> 
> Well, this apparently doesn't work.  The module builds, load, and runs
> non-paging mode fine, but things appear to go haywire just around when
> paging gets activated.  Any recent changes in the module (large page,
> TLB contract) that might be relying on addition kernel support?
> 
> Or just too long since I pulled mainline.  I'll try a bsect and see
> where I get.
> 
> Zach

Thanks a lot for the patches! Just yesterday, I finally started hacking
on this as well. I have some FPU wrapper running (see next branch) that
seems to run fine - but is in some parts also more complicated as
required (and has a build problem on very old kernels).

Will comment on individual patches.

Jan


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