Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1: strange GPF when panicing under kvm

Avi Kivity
2007-05-17T17:30:27Z

> 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.
>

That means pause isn't set for interception.

I ran a small test program, and it liked pause as well.

Can you send me your vmlinuz? I wasn't able top reproduce the problem
with mine.

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