From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <50F2BC64.408@xenomai.org> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:53:40 +0100 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <50F19CE1.5080106@zultron.com> <50F1B37E.3030502@xenomai.org> <50F23AA2.3080102@zultron.com> In-Reply-To: <50F23AA2.3080102@zultron.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Kernel OOPS during regression tests List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: John Morris Cc: Xenomai On 01/13/2013 05:40 AM, John Morris wrote: > > > On 01/12/2013 01:03 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> On 01/12/2013 06:26 PM, John Morris wrote:> >> >>> The kernel is built from the elrepo.org kernel, and this config file >>> overrides the upstream config; makes it easy to see the Xenomai-specific >>> changes: >>> https://github.com/zultron/kernel-ml/blob/branch3.5.3-xeno/config-3.5.3-xenomai-x86_64 >> >> >> It seems a really bad idea to enable the SMI workaround by default. >> > > Thanks! Despite feeling uncomfortable contradicting the documentation, > I was encouraged to turn this on by someone more authoritative than me. > It does seem like a separate package with it turned on is warranted for > those who have problems and have been fairly warned about the risk. I guess we should turn the compile-time option into a kernel parameter. So, the smi workaround would be disabled by default, and only enabled when passing a kerne command-line option. -- Gilles.