From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756536AbXJJUcq (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:32:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755600AbXJJUci (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:32:38 -0400 Received: from smtp.ustc.edu.cn ([202.38.64.16]:38947 "HELO ustc.edu.cn" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755659AbXJJUch (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:32:37 -0400 Message-ID: <392048357.06732@ustc.edu.cn> X-EYOUMAIL-SMTPAUTH: wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:32:32 +0800 From: Fengguang Wu To: Andi Kleen Cc: Zachary Amsden , Avi Kivity , lkml , david-g@263.net Subject: Re: x86_64 : kernel initial decompression hangs on vmware Message-ID: <20071010203232.GA6088@mail.ustc.edu.cn> References: <392001863.28140@ustc.edu.cn> <200710101518.42830.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200710101518.42830.ak@suse.de> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 53D2 DDCE AB5C 8DC6 188B 1CB1 F766 DA34 8D8B 1C6D User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. Yeah, it's a false hang ;-) > > 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. Ah indeed. Sorry for the noise. Fengguang