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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	ying.huang@intel.com, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:25:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290191158.2109.1614.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101119165952.GJ18100@redhat.com>

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 11:59 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> Reading the kvm code in arch/x86/kernel/kvm/x86.c, it seems like they do
> _not_ fault on writes, only on some (which don't include a bunch of the
> perfctrs).  The reason seems to be to prevent older distros from falling
> apart that could not handle those faults properly.

Egads, that's just vile.. in that case we don't really need to do
anything, its a qemu/KVM bug, they emulate non-working hardware.

Hmm,. there is something we can do though, write a non-zero counter
value and then read it back, if its not what we wrote, its fudged and we
disable the pmu.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 14:43 [V2 PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86, NMI: Add NMI symbol constants and rename memory parity to PCI SERR Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86, NMI: Add touch_nmi_watchdog to io_check_error delay Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, NMI: Rewrite NMI handler Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI and add priorties to handlers Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU Don Zickus
2010-11-12 14:43 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86, NMI: Remove do_nmi_callback logic Don Zickus
2010-11-12 15:05 ` [V2 PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift Jason Wessel
2010-11-12 15:42   ` Don Zickus
2010-11-12 15:55     ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-12 16:11       ` Don Zickus
2010-11-12 16:34         ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-12 17:27           ` Don Zickus
2010-11-16 18:43             ` Don Zickus
2010-11-16 20:04               ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-18  8:05                 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-11-18 12:47                   ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-18 13:17                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 14:32                       ` Don Zickus
2010-11-18 15:18                         ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-18 15:38                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 19:32                       ` Don Zickus
2010-11-18 19:51                         ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-18 20:04                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 20:08                           ` Don Zickus
2010-11-18 20:11                             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 20:52                               ` Don Zickus
2010-11-18 21:01                                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 21:16                                   ` Don Zickus
2010-11-18 21:26                                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 20:28                             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 20:39                               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 21:02                                 ` Don Zickus
2010-11-18 21:19                                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 20:30                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-19 16:59                               ` Don Zickus
2010-11-19 18:25                                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-11-19 22:59                                   ` Don Zickus
2010-11-19 23:09                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-19 23:30                                       ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-22 14:22                                         ` Don Zickus
2010-11-22 14:22                                       ` Don Zickus
2010-11-22 14:29                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 20:04                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 21:56                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 21:58                           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 22:15                           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-11-18 22:24                             ` Jason Wessel
2010-11-18 22:27                               ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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