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From: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REPOST]: Fake emulate Intel perfctr MSRs
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:37:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806191937.31593.sheng.yang@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485A0772.1050606@redhat.com>

On Thursday 19 June 2008 15:14:58 Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Attached is a patch for fake emulating Intel perfctr MSRs, similar to the
> recent patch to fake emulate the AMD perfctr MSRs.  This is needed for a
> reason similar for the previous patch; older linux guests (in this case,
> 2.6.9) can attempt to access the MSR's without a fixup section, and
> injecting a GPF kills the guest. Tested by me on RHEL-4 i386 and x86_64
> guests, as well as F-9 guests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>

Hi, Chris

It seems you can use something like MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0 to avoid brought in new 
#include? :)

(BTW: these four MSRs are P6 architecture specific ones, and two of them 
shared by Pentium architecture)

-- 
Thanks
Yang, Sheng

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-19 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-19  7:14 [PATCH] [REPOST]: Fake emulate Intel perfctr MSRs Chris Lalancette
2008-06-19 11:37 ` Yang, Sheng [this message]
2008-06-20  7:39   ` Chris Lalancette
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-20  7:51 [PATCH][REPOST]: " Chris Lalancette
2008-06-29  9:24 ` Avi Kivity

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