From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
jeremy@goop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, stable@vger.kernel.org.#.3.4+
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 08:01:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC6363F.3040208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120530150007.GB15438@x1.osrc.amd.com>
On 05/30/2012 08:00 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:58:23AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> If so, then fix the description to match reality and we can take the patch.
>
> Andre, would you please do that?
>
Ah, but now we get:
>> I'm not following: If the AMD variants (putting a special value into
>> %edi) can be freely replaced by the non-AMD variants, why did
>> the AMD special ones get used in the first place?
> Older CPUs (K8) needed the AMD variants, starting with family 10h we
> can use the normal versions.
So no, not correct.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 13:10 [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems Andre Przywara
2012-05-30 13:33 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 13:33 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 14:02 ` [Xen-devel] " Andre Przywara
2012-05-30 14:02 ` Andre Przywara
2012-05-30 14:23 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 14:23 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 14:42 ` [Xen-devel] " H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 15:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 15:40 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:40 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 14:48 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 14:48 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 14:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 15:03 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 15:03 ` Jacob Shin
2012-05-30 17:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 22:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 23:23 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, amd, xen: Avoid NULL pointer paravirt references tip-bot for Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 17:32 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinity systems Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 17:47 ` [PATCH] x86, AMD: Fix " Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 17:47 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/amd: fix " H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 17:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 18:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 18:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 22:33 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-06 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-06 9:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-06 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-31 12:24 ` Andre Przywara
2012-05-31 12:24 ` Andre Przywara
2012-05-31 15:27 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-31 7:39 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 7:39 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 16:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-31 7:17 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 7:17 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-31 15:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:39 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 14:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:35 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 15:35 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-30 16:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-30 14:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 14:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 14:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-30 15:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 15:01 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-05-30 15:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-30 23:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
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