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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>, Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use X86_EFLAGS_IF in x86-64/irqflags.h.
Date: 30 Mar 2007 12:12:09 +0200
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:12:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070330101209.GA79904@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175224343.12230.368.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:12:23PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 14:19 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:06:57PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> [SNIP: processor-flags.h patch for i386 ]
> 
> > Ok. Can you do it for x86-64 too?
> 
> OK, here it is.  Compiles, but -rc5-mm2 doesn't link for me on x86-64 at
> the moment.

What's the problem? 

> 
> Something seems quite wrong with CONFIG_X86_VSMP.  AFAICT (1 << 18) is
> the "alignment check" flag, not the "virtual interrupt" flag which I
> expected.

They abuse that intentionally as a way to talk to their hypervisor.
You don't want to know details.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-30 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29  7:46 [PATCH] ignore vgacon if hardware not present Rusty Russell
2007-03-29 10:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-29 11:06   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-29 12:19     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-30  3:12       ` [PATCH] Use X86_EFLAGS_IF in x86-64/irqflags.h Rusty Russell
2007-03-30 10:12         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-30 10:59           ` Rusty Russell

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