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Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: strange GPF when panicing under kvm
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> (that msr can force trapping of the pause instruction, even though
> there's no good reason to do it, and kvm wouldn't inject a gp if it
> did anyway).

Hm, yeah, its strange; clearly its running "pause" in normal use, so it
can't be the instuction itself which is causing the problem.  The MSR is
7781fffe0401e172 btw.

    J