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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed KVM problems with old DOS programs. Compatibility can be forced by module parameter.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 17:15:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <563B809D.5040306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <563B7ECB.9030504@wiesinger.com>



On 05/11/2015 17:07, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>>
> 
> ./trace-cmd record -b 20000 -e kvm
> ./trace-cmd report | grep -i task_switch
>  qemu-system-x86-6024  [001] 792774.719297: kvm_exit: reason task_switch
> rip 0x4883 info 158 4000000000

0x158 is the segment selector of the incoming TSS, and the task switch
was caused by a far jump.

> But I can't interpret it.

Neither can I; you have to send the whole trace.

> But I know my patch works well. Since it is
> just a module parameter it is fully backward compatible by default and
> because of the one liner no side effects are possible. So a intergration
> would be good.

It's also papering over a bug, and likely the bug still triggers on
Intel systems.  So it's not acceptable.

Can you provide reproduction instructions please?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-05 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-04 19:33 [PATCH] Fixed KVM problems with old DOS programs. Compatibility can be forced by module parameter Gerhard Wiesinger
2015-11-04 21:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-04 21:33   ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2015-11-04 22:04     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-05 16:07       ` Gerhard Wiesinger
2015-11-05 16:15         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-11-05 16:19           ` Paolo Bonzini

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