From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] perf-kvm support for SVM Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:38:11 +0200 Message-ID: <4D3310E3.9020909@redhat.com> References: <1295019902-31339-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <4D32CD45.3090503@redhat.com> <20110116153506.GI6376@8bytes.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joerg Roedel , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Joerg Roedel Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30254 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752764Ab1APPiR (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:38:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110116153506.GI6376@8bytes.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/16/2011 05:35 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:49:41PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 01/14/2011 05:45 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > >> here is the reworked version of the patch-set. Only patch 1/2 has > >> changed and now contains the real fix for the crashes that were seen and > >> has an updated log message. > >> > > > > Thanks, applied. 2.6.37 and earlier aren't affected, yes? So I'm > > queuing it for 2.6.38 only. > > I think the problem is there since KVM has lazy state switching. So the > fix in patch 1 should make it in all currently maintained stable-trees. > The problem is with load_gs_index(), yes? In 2.6.37 this is called before stgi(), so it's protected from nmi. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function