From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754212AbXJJNTD (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:19:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752180AbXJJNSy (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:18:54 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56836 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381AbXJJNSx (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:18:53 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Fengguang Wu Subject: Re: x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:18:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Zachary Amsden , Avi Kivity , lkml , david-g@263.net References: <392001863.28140@ustc.edu.cn> In-Reply-To: <392001863.28140@ustc.edu.cn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710101518.42830.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 10 October 2007 09:37:39 Fengguang Wu wrote: > One of my friends' vmware "hangs" It should just be a little slow. VMware seems to do something fishy here -- KVM or Xen using VT don't have this issue. > on booting Linux 2.6.23, and then get > it to work by applying your patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/72. The patch is already in 2.6.23; it was just missing in .22. Perhaps your friend confused those two. -Andi